Route 66 Car Mural Photography in Black and White
A Weathered Sports Car Beneath Heavy Roadside Clouds
Route 66 has always been inseparable from the automobile for me. Engines, repair shops and long-distance driving are as much a part of its appeal as the landscape. This black and white photograph brings that connection into a small roadside scene: a weathered sports car painted across a brick shop facade beneath heavy clouds.
The painted car looks ready to move, yet it is fixed above a very orderly arrangement of door, glass-block window and striped awnings. I like that tension. The brick courses and almost frontal view give the building a firm structure, while the worn mural breaks into uneven patches across the wall. The car’s outline survives through that wear.
Across the foreground, a battered striped barrier repeats the geometry in a rougher way. Concrete posts, trimmed shrubs and the texture of the ground keep the scene practical and unpolished. Above them, the dark sky occupies enough of the square frame to give this modest building a substantial presence. Monochrome draws those surfaces and tonal differences together.
I made the photograph while travelling along historic Route 66 in the United States; I do not have the exact town recorded. It remains one of those fragments of the road that stays with me after the journey. For an automotive enthusiast’s den, office or garage-inspired space, the appeal is in the combination of car imagery and the everyday building that carries it, both visibly marked by time.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2022
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