Langdon Clay: Cars: New York City, 1974-1976

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From 1974 to 1976, Langdon Clay (born 1949) photographed the cars he encountered whilst wandering the streets of New York City and nearby Hoboken, New Jersey, at night. Shot in Kodachrome with a Leica and deftly lit with then-new sodium vapor lights, the pictures feature a distinct array of makes and models set against the gritty details of their surrounding urban and architectural environments, and on occasion the ghostly presence of people.
“I experienced a conversion of sorts in making a switch from the ‘decisive moment’ of black and white to the marvel of color, a world I used to be waking up to on a daily basis,” Clay writes of this work. “On the time it gave the impression of an obvious and natural transition. What used to be less obvious used to be the way to reflect my world of New York City in color … I found out that night used to be its own color and I fell for it.”
Langdon Clay used to be born in New York City in 1949. He grew up in New Jersey and Vermont and attended school in New Hampshire and Boston. Clay moved to New York in 1971 and spent the next sixteen years photographing there, around the country and in Europe for more than a few magazines and books. In 1987 he moved to Mississippi where he has since lived with his wife, photographer Maude Schuyler Clay, and their three children.

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