1940s, Cars, Texas

WANNA RIDE WITH ME TOWARD THE SUN?

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’48 Chrysler, El Paso, Texas, 2022, photograph by Bruce Berman

Photograph and rumination by Bruce Berman

I’m out of words.
Taught photography for 25 years. F-stops, shutter speeds, composition, GET CLOSER!, on and on and on.
In the beginning there was just photography and me.
Burned out? Talked out?
In the end, what is there to say?
The world is LIGHT. Photography is Light-writing (Greek). Actually light-noticing, good and bad. And commitment to doing it. Pretending it can be taught is a wink. If you really have no heart for it and realize the part about sweating to get it (which is universal to all pursuits), why botha.
And then there is love.
The love you feel when it’s good. The love you get from others who felt what and how you saw something. The love you can give by giving your heart in the form of that image, whether it’s a print (especially if it’s a print), on a monitor or I don’t know what else.
There I go again.
Words.
Just can’t!
Do you love this image?

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1930s, Beauty, Cars

STEEL, LEATHER AND WOOD BEAUTY

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Talbot Lago T-150C SS Goutte d’Eau (1937)

Editor’s Note by Bruce Berman
How could you even describe how beautiful this car is. Every once in awhile you just have to go silent, let your mouth hang open and just say… Wow!
At the end of the article… check the price.
DEAL!
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Without a doubt one of the most beautiful cars ever made, the Talbot-Lago Teardrop Coupé was designed by Giuseppe Figoni, one of the greatest French coachbuilders before World War II. The sheer definition of Art-Deco, the T-150C SS was nicknamed Goutte d’Eau (teardrop) because of its round shape and sensual curves. Not just a pretty car, though, as the Talbots of the era won many races, including the French Grand Prix of 1937. A stock Talbot Teardrop even competed at the 1938 24 of Le Mans race, placing third overall. You can auction one of these beauties at around $4,000,000.

This is a description from DriveMag

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Cars, Documentary Photography, New Mexico

JOE

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Joe Olds, La Mesa, New Mexico, Small Village New Mexico project (SVNM) by ©Bruce Berman

The Small Village New Mexico project (SVNM) was created as a Documentary Photography teaching tool, for my advanced photojournalism class at New Mexico State University.

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Cars, Documentary Photography, OWI, Women

HOPPING CARS

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July 1942. “Chevy Chase, Maryland. Serving supper to motorists at an A&W Hot Shoppes restaurant
on Wisconsin Avenue, just over the District line,” by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information

Read More: https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/collinsessay.html

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Cars, Funklands, New Mexico, Roadside Attractions

TRUCK WARRIOR

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Twisted Ford. Doña Ana, New Mexico, 2014

We like old cars because they’re like older people. A little twisted, Smashed up a little. Never gonna be what they were. Their very existence holds clues and mysteries about where they’ve been, what they did, where they lived, what happened to them.

The mysteries: What happened to twist her teeth? When did her paint  disappear? What color had she been before the golden rust appeared? What tasks did this truck warrior perform through her long and, I am sure, honorable service? Who mourned her decent?

These things we will never know. There’s the limitation of a photograph: her past cannot be known, nor her future. There is only this, my noticing of now.

I guess the ultimate question is, does she still run?

¿Se serve?

If so, who does she serve and what service is left to do?

 

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