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Inspired by Kenneth Anger’s 1965 short film Kustom Kar Kommandos (of which the romantic doo-wop song "Dream Lover" by The Paris Sisters is the soundtrack) Bob Foster spent a summer visiting numerous car shows to indulge in a metallic smorgasbord of crisp paint jobs, shiny rims, eccentric themed interiors and pristine modded engines.
Employing his signature loose framing and hard flash style, Foster created a series of abstracted and intensely energetic photographs, leaping from proudly presented engine bays to pimped out foot wells and furry pink steering wheels with upbeat aplomb. He takes the kitsch of Anger’s original vision and injects it with an electric fetishism.
From the artist:
“I made Dream Lover because I love glamour, camp and gaudiness. All those things are really just self expression unfettered by dull expectations of taste and narrow social mores.
My favourite book in the world is Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger (published by J.J. Pauvert in Paris1959). It changed the direction of my life when I first read it, and I re-read it once a year. It’s full of lurid, glamorous stories of unusual people realising their wild ambitions (for better or worse) in spite of a world largely objecting to their way of being.
A few years after he published Hollywood Babylon, Anger made a film called Kustom Kar Kommandos - 3 homoerotic minutes of a guy buffing a customized hot rod in front of a pink background to the tune of "Dream Lover" by The Paris Sisters. It’s very glamorous, camp and gaudy and feels like a dream realised in the face of a grey disapproving world.
Life can be boring and grey and a real trudge, and people (especially British people) love to tell you that’s all there is and any attempt to deviate from that isn’t sensible or isn’t good somehow. When you’re young you’re often told to temper your inclinations, to keep your head down and be as normal as possible. I think the people who created the cars in these photos are fighting against that. “
Inspired by Kenneth Anger’s 1965 short film Kustom Kar Kommandos (of which the romantic doo-wop song "Dream Lover" by The Paris Sisters is the soundtrack) Bob Foster spent a summer visiting numerous car shows to indulge in a metallic smorgasbord of crisp paint jobs, shiny rims, eccentric themed interiors and pristine modded engines.
Employing his signature loose framing and hard flash style, Foster created a series of abstracted and intensely energetic photographs, leaping from proudly presented engine bays to pimped out foot wells and furry pink steering wheels with upbeat aplomb. He takes the kitsch of Anger’s original vision and injects it with an electric fetishism.
From the artist:
“I made Dream Lover because I love glamour, camp and gaudiness. All those things are really just self expression unfettered by dull expectations of taste and narrow social mores.
My favourite book in the world is Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger (published by J.J. Pauvert in Paris1959). It changed the direction of my life when I first read it, and I re-read it once a year. It’s full of lurid, glamorous stories of unusual people realising their wild ambitions (for better or worse) in spite of a world largely objecting to their way of being.
A few years after he published Hollywood Babylon, Anger made a film called Kustom Kar Kommandos - 3 homoerotic minutes of a guy buffing a customized hot rod in front of a pink background to the tune of "Dream Lover" by The Paris Sisters. It’s very glamorous, camp and gaudy and feels like a dream realised in the face of a grey disapproving world.
Life can be boring and grey and a real trudge, and people (especially British people) love to tell you that’s all there is and any attempt to deviate from that isn’t sensible or isn’t good somehow. When you’re young you’re often told to temper your inclinations, to keep your head down and be as normal as possible. I think the people who created the cars in these photos are fighting against that. “