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The Heights: Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Heights: Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars
Authors and Contributors      Photographs by Matthew Porter
Text by Rachel Kushner
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:56
Dimensions(mm): Height 305,Width 273
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9781597114578
ClassificationsDewey:779.9629222092
Audience
General
Illustrations 25 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Aperture
Imprint Aperture
Publication Date 4 April 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

Matthew Porter's popular "flying cars" series, now in book form Fun artist's book, where Stephen Shore meets Steve McQueen "The photographs delight and mystify." -New York Times Additional Comp Titles Autophoto: Cars & Photography, 1900 to Now. 9782869251311, $65.00 USD (Editions Xavier Barral, 2017)Langdon Clay: Cars. 9783958291713 (Steidl, 2016) The Heights also featured in: The Paris Review, April 18, 2019 ARTnews, April 3, 2019 Another Man, March 11, 2019 Polka, February 26, 2019 (Print)

Author Biography

Matthew Porter (born in State College, Pennsylvania, 1975) is a graduate of Bard College and of the ICP-Bard MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, New York. His work was included in Photography Is Magic (Aperture, 2015), and his first book, Archipelago, was published in 2015. Porter's work is represented by M+B, Los Angeles, and Invisible-Exports, New York. He lives and works in Brooklyn. Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Her book The Flamethrowers received rave reviews across the country, and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013; her latest novel is The Mars Room (2018). Kushner's fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, Cabinet, and Grand Street. She lives in Los Angeles.