Vol. I № 144
The Collection A Catalogue of Automobiles, Street & Sundry
Issue I · Spring MMXXVI

Machines,
observed in
passing.

A photographic field-book of automobiles encountered on curbs, in lots, and in the slow light of ordinary afternoons. No concours lawns, no rotating plinths — only the cars as they are found.

Entries
Frames
Marques
Plate 001 · AC Cobra
§ 01
From the Plates — a selection
All 144 entries →
§ 02
Field Notes
from the curb
Editor's note

On the particular pleasure of looking at parked cars.

There is a quiet discipline in the old habit of stopping — really stopping — in front of whatever happens to be at the kerb. Most automotive photography is staged: the angled three-quarter, the polished paint, the empty road at dawn. This is not that.

These frames were taken in passing. A Fiat outside a grocer. A Citroën under a streetlamp. A Porsche with a week's worth of pollen. Cars are more interesting, I think, when no one is trying to sell them to you.

Recent captures

Where the frames were made.

§ 03
Index of Marques