Photo Essay

Vector Portraits

September 12, 2011

Photographer Andrew Bush documents individuals driving cars in and around Los Angeles, probably the city most identified with car culture, suggesting different speeds and personal spaces. His series were published in 2008 in the book Drive (Yale University Press).

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Mas issue speed vector portraits 01

Woman caught in traffic while heading southwest on U.S. Route 101 near the Topanga Canyon Boulevard exit, Woodland Hills, California, at 5:38 pm in the summer of 1989. © Andrew Bush.

Mas issue speed vector portraits 02

Man continuing east at 67 mph on Interstate 10 near Palms Boulevard in Los Angeles at 4:14 pm in February 1991. © Andrew Bush.

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Man driving northwest at 60 mph on U.S. Route 101 in the vicinity of Hollywood on a late Sunday afternoon in March 1991. © Andrew Bush.

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Man traveling north at 64 mph on the Glendale Freeway near Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, at 3:13 pm on Thursday, February 20, 1997. © Andrew Bush.

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Woman gliding southeast at 64 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbara at 4:39 pm sometime in March 1990. © Andrew Bush.

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Man (possibly someone in character) traveling northwest at 60 mph on U.S. Route 101 in the vicinity of Hollywood on a late Sunday afternoon in March 1991. © Andrew Bush.

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Person traveling north at 62 mph near Sherman Oaks, California, on a Tuesday in 1990 (this may instead be Phoenix or St. Louis). © Andrew Bush.

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High school students facing north at 0 mph on Sepulveda Boulevard in Westwood, California, at 3:01 pm on a Saturday in February 1997. © Andrew Bush.

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Family traveling northwest at 63 mph on Interstate 244 near Yale Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at approximately 4:15 pm on the last day of 1991. © Andrew Bush.

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Woman waiting to proceed south at Sunset and Highland boulevards, Los Angeles, at approximately 11:59 am one day in February 1997. © Andrew Bush.

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Man drifting northwest at approximately 68 mph on U.S. Route 101 somewhere near Camarillo, California, one evening in 1989. © Andrew Bush.

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