Langdon Clay (born 1949)
Untitled from the series Cars
1977
C-type print
Museum no. Ph.348-1978

Clay was one of the first photographers to embrace colour photography as an artistic medium in the mid 1970s. Fascinated by the different colours and light sources in the urban night, Clay shot a series of photographs documenting parked cars on the streets of New York. He chose cars because of their iconic status in American culture and also for the formal qualities of their gleaming metal and glass, iridescent in the artificial lighting of the nocturnal city.