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Background information
"The culture of cars is an inseparable part of American life. Whether used for functional purposes or recreation, automobiles are expressions of our personality. They also represent the American ideals of freedom, mobility, and independence, providing a unique personal space that is at once private and public. In his photo series Vector Portraits', here published as a photo volume, named 'Drive', US-American photographer Andrew BUSH examines this tension between private and public in his remarkable series of photographs of individuals driving cars in and around Los Angeles - a city famous for its car culture.
Content
The out-of-print photo volume 'Drive' by US-American photographer Andrew BUSH is a voyeuristic view of Los Angeles drivers in their own moving living rooms. He made these pictures while driving alongside his subjects - often traveling at 60 mph - by attaching a camera to the passenger side window. The caption for the images are equivalent to the taking notes on the speed and direction he was going. The publication is accompanied by an essay by culture critic Patt Morrison and an interview between the photographer and Jeff L. Rosenheim that discusses the 'Vector Portraits' in the context of the photography by Andrew BUSH as a whole." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Yale University Press, 2008)