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CC Photography: The Cars of Ray K. Metzger
Posted on July 5, 2024 | 21 CommentsChicago, 1958 I’m a fan of Ray Metzker’s photography. It has a strong graphic feel; compositionally tight and driven by contrast. He manages to capture a specific moment of light […] -
Andrew Bush’s Amazing Photos Of Vintage Cars And Their Drivers Caught On The Go
Posted on June 26, 2024 | 65 CommentsHow have I never come across these before? Not only are they superb photographs of drivers caught on the go by Mr. Bush’s camera mounted on the side of his […] -
Clearance-side Classics: Newark Edition
Posted on February 1, 2024 | 36 Comments(first posted 2/1/2018) New at Newark Street, Newark NJ – Fall, 1980 -
Roadside Classics: America Through the Lens of Carol Highsmith at the Library of Congress (Continued)
Posted on September 4, 2023 | 36 CommentsLollipop Motel sign, Wildwood, New Jersey (2006) Earlier in this space we reviewed some of the work of photographer Carol Highsmith. Highsmith donated her life’s work of more than 100,000 […] -
Roadside Classics: Signs of America in the ’70s,’80s and 90s – By John Margolies at the Library of Congress
Posted on August 16, 2023 | 51 CommentsSt. Joseph Auto and Furniture Fabric slipcover sign; St, Joseph, Missouri (1988) (first posted 8/16/2017) John Margolies was an American photographer who in the 1970s began traveling secondary […] -
Ralf K Vintage Snapshots: San Francisco, 1980
Posted on May 13, 2023 | 44 Comments(first posted 5/13/2017) Ralf K (Don Kincl) has uploaded more of his old snapshots from the beach in San Francisco, so let’s take a trip back in time. There’s at […] -
Vintage Photography: ‘Then & Now’ Images of Highways, Businesses, Mansions, and Other Lost Wonders
Posted on May 8, 2023 | 67 CommentsWhile putting together my recent post (How The 21st Century Is Replacing the 20th), I found a number of other photos that I was thinking of including, but they […] -
Vintage Photography: “People In Cars” – 19 Year-Old Mike Mandel’s Street Corner Shots in LA, Circa 1970
Posted on May 1, 2023 | 74 Comments(first posted 5/1/2017) It isn’t just the cars from the past that looked different; their inhabitants did too. And although we still have plenty of cars from the past to […] -
Vintage Snapshots: Me and My Car, Part 1
Posted on March 1, 2023 | 76 Comments(first posted 2/3/2017) I’ve discovered a collection of vintage amateur Kodachrome snapshots with a heavy emphasis on cars and their owners. And they are truly splendid. I’ll give you the […] -
“Midnight Modern”: Palm Springs Classics Under The Full Moon
Posted on February 19, 2023 | 40 Comments(first posted 2/19/2017) Stephanie found this gallery of shots of Palm Springs mid-century classic houses that were all shot by moonlight. And several have some very appropriate cars parked with […] -
Vintage Color Snapshots: Florida, 1953
Posted on February 12, 2023 | 55 Comments(first posted 2/12/2017) I recently scanned some more of my father’s Kodachromes, including these shots taken during a much calmer – and much less female – Spring Break in 1953. […] -
CC Photography: Losing Victorian Los Angeles–In Kodachrome (Part 1)
Posted on February 3, 2023 | 40 CommentsSan Francisco, California is famous for its ornate Victorian houses, but not many people know that Los Angeles was once a very Victorian city too. To describe it generally, […] -
Vintage Color Snapshots: Vancouver, B.C. in the 1970s
Posted on February 1, 2023 | 80 Comments(first posted 2/1/2017) Today vintage.es takes us to Vancouver, B.C. in the 1970s. -
Vintage Photos: Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1972
Posted on January 28, 2023 | 94 Comments(first posted 1/28/2017) CC reader Michael M. sent me a link to a gallery of photos shot on Van Nuys Blvd. in 1972, by photographer Rick McCloskey, and part […] -
CC Photography: Curbside Classics of 1991 – Freezing Time in a Rectangle
Posted on January 20, 2023 | 63 CommentsIn the late 1980s/early 1990s, I started noticing that my beloved cars of the ’50s were becoming evermore rare. So I began a project of photographing surviving examples that […]