66 drives
06/29/12
— driving, family, people, portraits
as a part of its visual series “reframed,” framework sat down with photographer andrew bush to discuss his “66 drives” project. in it, bush captures people at a moment that blends a sense of ultimate privacy in the most public of places: when you’re driving your car. in his words:
The boundary between public and private space is the subject of many of my photo projects; photography is an especially good tool for examining this boundary. I was really not so much interested in the car, which is why the entire car is not visible in these photos. The car is not so much a separate thing traveling through the world but the car, driver and landscape are inseparable.
he was able to get such great photos in part by matching the speeds of his subjects as they were driving. look at some of his shots below (which serve as a nice time capsule since they go back almost 20 years) and more at his website.
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- Woman going about her business at 62 mph on southbound Interstate 5 near San Diego at 9:38 a.m. on a Tuesday in February 1992.
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- Man (possibly someone in character) traveling northwest at 60 mph on U.S. Route 101 in the vicinity of Hollywood on a late Sunday afternoon in March 1991.
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- Man finding his way south at 64 mph on Interstate 5 near Wildcat Canyon, California, on a Sunday in 1993.
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- Woman waiting to proceed south at Sunset and Highland boulevards, Los Angeles, at approximately 11:59 a.m. one day in February 1997
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- High school students cruising west at 38 mph along Sunset Boulevard on a weekend in February 1997.
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- Teenagers bopping through light traffic at 51 mph on the Ventura Freeway near Valley Circle Boulevard, Los Angeles, at 3:18 p.m. on March 16, 1997.
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- Family traveling northwest at 63 mph on Interstate 244 near Yale Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at approximately 4:15 p.m. on the last day of 1991
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- Man traveling southeast on U.S. Route 101 at approximately 71 mph somewhere around Camarillo, California, on a summer evening in 1994.
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- Woman rolling to a stoplight at Wilshire Boulevard and Lafayette Park Place in Hollywood on January 18, 1997.
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- Woman caught in traffic while heading southwest on U.S. Route 101 near the Topanga Canyon Boulevard exit, Woodland Hills, California, at 5:38 in the summer of 1989.
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- Man heading south at 73 mph on Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow Drive outside of Bakersfield, California, at 5:36 p.m. on a Tuesday in March 1992.
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- Man and woman traveling southeast at 68 mph on Highway 101 outside of Camarillo, California, after 3:31 PM but before the summer equinox of 2010.
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- Man traveling southeast at approximately 68 mph on U.S. Route 101 someplace in Southern California in the winter of 1997.
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- Man heading north at 66 mph on the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles on an afternoon in 1989.
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- Man drifting northwest at approximately 68 mph on U.S. Route 101 somewhere near Camarillo, California, one evening in 1989.
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- Man drifting near the shoulder at 61 mph on Interstate 405 at 4:01 p.m. on a Tuesday in September 1992.
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- Man driving family south-southeast at 61 mph after traveling north-northwest for tacos, tacos, tacos in the summer of 2010.
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- Man rolling along (and whistling audibly) on U.S. Route 101 at approximately 55 mph on a summer day in 1989.
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- Man possibly returning from college at 71 mph along the Camino Real near San Juan Road at 3:33 p.m. on a Saturday in June 1993.
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- Man and woman passing through the intersection of Cahuenga and Hollywood boulevards, Hollywood, at 33 mph on February 14, 1997
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- Man ramping down from the Santa Monica Freeway to the northbound Harbor Freeway at 31 mph on a Saturday morning in 1995.
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- Man continuing east at 67 mph on Interstate 10 near Palms Boulevard in Los Angeles at 4:14 p.m. in February 1991.
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- Man heading west at 78 mph on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs, California, sometime during an evening in 1990.
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- Woman gliding southeast at 64 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbara at 4:39 p.m. sometime in March 1990.
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- Women racing southwest at 41 mph along 26th Street near the Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, California, at 1:14 p.m. on a Tuesday in February 1997.
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- Woman taking her time rambling south at 63 mph on the Hollywood Freeway near the Vine Street exit in Los Angeles on a Saturday afternoon in 1991.
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- Man driving (with woman reading and parakeet clinging) southbound at 72 mph on Interstate 5 near Wheeler Ridge Road outside of Bakersfield, California, at 3:37 p.m. on a weekday in July 1992
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- Woman heading west at 71 mph on Interstate 44 outside Rolla, Missouri, at 11:43 a.m. in January 1991.
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- Man traveling southbound at 67 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Montecito, California, at 6:31 p.m. on or around the 28th of a summer month on a Sunday in 1994.
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- Man heading south at 73 mph on Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow Drive outside of Bakersfield, California, at 5:36 p.m. on a Tuesday in March 1992.
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- Someone’s son traveling northbound at 60 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbara at 1:55 p.m. in August 1993.
