The Heights: Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars

“I was inspired by the way a car can steal the show. Think of iconic car chases in films―it’s often about spectacle, and has little to do with advancing a narrative. And that’s the way I think of these cars, as dead-end technologies, but also as high-performance machines which, for their audience, sought to reflect the spirit and attitudes of their time.” ―Matthew PorterMatthew Porter presents a portfolio of twenty-five images of old-school cars, captured in midair as they careen over city streets and highway intersections. Each photograph is a freeze-frame―a hypothetical film still from a pulp-fiction chase scene. The series seems, on one hand, to distill the essence of muscle-car Americana, a pop-cultural semaphore for the high-testosterone male persona. And yet, on the other, the subject―the “all-American” muscle car as antihero―is caught in an eternal state of suspended animation, wh