Abandoned Classic Car Door | Black and White Automotive Wall Art
Decay, Cobwebs and Forgotten Automotive Details
Some photographs are about the entire car. This one is about what time did to a very small part of it.
I found this old automobile at a vintage car exhibition in Los Angeles, but I was far more interested in getting close than making a conventional photograph of the vehicle. The door had become its own landscape. Cobwebs stretched across the window and chrome. Paint had cracked and separated. Scratches, dust and years of deterioration covered surfaces that were once polished and carefully maintained.
The old door handle became the centre of the photograph. Its chrome was damaged and dull, yet enough of the original shape remained to suggest the styling and craftsmanship of another era.
I photographed the detail in black and white because colour seemed unnecessary. What interested me were the textures—the fractured paint, strands of webbing, worn metal, curved trim and deep shadows. Up close, the automobile almost disappears and the photograph becomes something more abstract.
I have always been drawn to things that show their age rather than hide it. There is a history in these surfaces that a restored automobile simply doesn't have.
Photographed in Los Angeles in 2011, this is less a portrait of a classic car than a study of what remains when something once beautiful is allowed to grow old.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2011
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