Autophoto

This is the catalogue from a nearly impossibly ambitious exhibition of international photography about people and cars. Big and heavy like a school textbook, the catalogue ends up hitting most of the marks, and is a massive, thoughtful, and even, somehow, modest encyclopedia of the genre. * Center for Land Use Interpretation *
[Autophoto] makes it easy to understand why photographers’ romance with the car may be as strong as ever. -- Eric Nagourney * The New York Times: Lens Blog *
The stunning car photographs that capture the 20th century…. not only tells the shifting story of society’s attitudes towards motorcars, but also provides an overview of important developments within the century’s photography itself. -- Alastair Sooke * Financial Times *
Capturing the geometric design of roadways, the reflections in a rear-view mirror or our special relationship with this object of desire, these photographers invite us to look at the world of the automobile in a new way. -- David Hurren * DriveTribe *
This new presentation revisits photography’s relationship to the automobile; how the car provided photographers with a new subject, a new point of view and new way of exploring the world… how the automobile has reshaped our landscape, extended our geographic horizons and altered our, and notably artists’, concept of space and time. * Aesthetica Magazine *
What may be the most ambitious exhibit of car-focused photography ever ... flat-out beautiful images. -- Bill Shapiro * Popular Mechanics *
Cars and cameras grew up together as siblings…. A comfortable comparison can be made with having a photo in focus and having a car in the correct gear…. A lot of that has to do with taking the machine in your hands seriously—much like taking the car that you’re sitting in seriously. -- Florence Walker * Petrolicious *
Works range from an Eve Arnold’s iconic 1961 images of Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits… to the work of photographers who have made the subject matter their own, like William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, and Robert Frank. [T]he diversity of images included is a testament to the ingenuity of photography and the various permutations that it can achieve…. many subtle threads that can be picked up on, giving plenty to satisfy the curious and knowledgeable…. One of these threads is changing the collective cultural memory of the car. -- Sarah Hyde * Artnet *
Fasten your seatbelts… -- De Bellaigue * Ad Magazine *
By the end of the 19th century, the camera and the car had helped pave the way for a new, more modern perspective – images by freezing time, from multiple perspectives, and automobiles by speeding things up -- Susanna D'Aliesio * British Journal of Photography *
The Cartier, 'Autophoto' is long overdue. Ever since the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain hosted the incredible Hommage à Ferrari 30 years ago, we’ve been waiting for another one of its automotive photo exhibitions. But it's finally here and it looks incredible. * GQ *