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Photography Archive
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Ralf K Photo Gallery: Shots From My Travels
Posted on October 16, 2025 | 7 CommentsHere’s another gallery by CC’s Ralf K (Don Kincl) titled “Alternative Shots From My Travels”. This surreal shot caught my eye; it’s of a Citroen DS in Grantsville, UT. -
A New Gallery Of Vintage Car And Truck Photos By Simon White
Posted on September 22, 2025 | 11 CommentsSimon White is back with a new gallery of his superb shots of vintage cars and trucks on the go. I particularly love this one of a 1959 Oldsmobile as […] -
A Gallery Of Vintage Cars and Trucks Shot By Simon White
Posted on March 23, 2025 | 15 CommentsSimon White is a stellar photographer and has been posting at the CC Cohort for some years now, and we’ve featured his work here before. He’s recently uploaded some new […] -
Curbside Musings: Bringing Color Back – There’s Actually A Lot Out There, Curbside and Otherwise
Posted on November 14, 2024 | 71 CommentsDoesn’t that lovely line of Volvo 140 butts make you want to say “Man, I remember when cars came in so many different colors!”? That’s been my comment on that […] -
CC Photography: The Cars of Ray K. Metzger
Posted on July 5, 2024 | 21 CommentsChicago, 1958 I’m a fan of Ray Metzker’s photography. It has a strong graphic feel; compositionally tight and driven by contrast. He manages to capture a specific moment of light […] -
Andrew Bush’s Amazing Photos Of Vintage Cars And Their Drivers Caught On The Go
Posted on June 26, 2024 | 65 CommentsHow have I never come across these before? Not only are they superb photographs of drivers caught on the go by Mr. Bush’s camera mounted on the side of his […] -
Clearance-side Classics: Newark Edition
Posted on February 1, 2024 | 36 Comments(first posted 2/1/2018) New at Newark Street, Newark NJ – Fall, 1980 -
Roadside Classics: America Through the Lens of Carol Highsmith at the Library of Congress (Continued)
Posted on September 4, 2023 | 36 CommentsLollipop Motel sign, Wildwood, New Jersey (2006) Earlier in this space we reviewed some of the work of photographer Carol Highsmith. Highsmith donated her life’s work of more than 100,000 […] -
Roadside Classics: Signs of America in the ’70s,’80s and 90s – By John Margolies at the Library of Congress
Posted on August 16, 2023 | 51 CommentsSt. Joseph Auto and Furniture Fabric slipcover sign; St, Joseph, Missouri (1988) (first posted 8/16/2017) John Margolies was an American photographer who in the 1970s began traveling secondary […] -
Ralf K Vintage Snapshots: San Francisco, 1980
Posted on May 13, 2023 | 44 Comments(first posted 5/13/2017) Ralf K (Don Kincl) has uploaded more of his old snapshots from the beach in San Francisco, so let’s take a trip back in time. There’s at […] -
Vintage Photography: ‘Then & Now’ Images of Highways, Businesses, Mansions, and Other Lost Wonders
Posted on May 8, 2023 | 67 CommentsWhile putting together my recent post (How The 21st Century Is Replacing the 20th), I found a number of other photos that I was thinking of including, but they […] -
Vintage Photography: “People In Cars” – 19 Year-Old Mike Mandel’s Street Corner Shots in LA, Circa 1970
Posted on May 1, 2023 | 74 Comments(first posted 5/1/2017) It isn’t just the cars from the past that looked different; their inhabitants did too. And although we still have plenty of cars from the past to […] -
Vintage Snapshots: Me and My Car, Part 1
Posted on March 1, 2023 | 76 Comments(first posted 2/3/2017) I’ve discovered a collection of vintage amateur Kodachrome snapshots with a heavy emphasis on cars and their owners. And they are truly splendid. I’ll give you the […] -
“Midnight Modern”: Palm Springs Classics Under The Full Moon
Posted on February 19, 2023 | 40 Comments(first posted 2/19/2017) Stephanie found this gallery of shots of Palm Springs mid-century classic houses that were all shot by moonlight. And several have some very appropriate cars parked with […] -
Vintage Color Snapshots: Florida, 1953
Posted on February 12, 2023 | 55 Comments(first posted 2/12/2017) I recently scanned some more of my father’s Kodachromes, including these shots taken during a much calmer – and much less female – Spring Break in 1953. […]