If you have more than a passing interest in ‘sweet rides’ you’ve probably found yourself taking photos of cars. Maybe you’ll see something ridiculous parked on the street and get out your camera, or maybe you’re the asshole with the Hipstamatic/Instagram/Twitpic addiction. Whatever it is you’re using, your photos don’t look anything like Ken Brown’s car porn.
Brown’s whole shtick is taking ridiculously high-end photos of cars. We’re talking perfect lighting, studio setting, nice composition, car all polished up. His photos are the automobile equivalent of a Playboy cover-shoot, an airbrushed fantasy. And the models are just as sought after – classic vehicles from the 1930s through to the 1960s; the golden age of sweet rides.
So to take this porn analogy to its tortured conclusion: he’s taking photos of professional playmates in a New York loft apartment. Your photo of the ‘fully sick’ Cortina at the traffic lights is amateur hour in one of those magazines lonely truck drivers buy.
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