Description
The Best of Automobile Year 1953-1978, Hardbound, 158 Pages, ISBN: 288001073X, Published, 1979
- Second Hand Copy in very good condition
This book collects together for the first time the best Grand Prix photographs contained in the Automobile Year files — files that have gathered together the best in motor racing photography since 1953.
They have been selected from hundreds of slides and prints uniquely for their dramatic, eyewitness, or aesthetic value.
PHOTO FORMULA 1 is a collection of souvenirs. It enables the reader to relive twenty-five years of Formula 1 with all the action and drama of the motor-racing circus, and it reveals the fundamental changes that have taken place over the period.
PHOTO FORMULA 1 is a collection of discoveries. It will enable those readers who were too young to have watched motor racing in the 'fifties and 'sixties to share the thrilling moments of those times, when legends were being made.
PHOTO FORMULA 1 is a collection of pictures. It will enable the reader not only to see for himself that black and white pictures often had a greater impact than colour, but also how the photograph—which fixes a fleeting instant—has a stronger atmospheric appeal than a film or television recording, quickly seen and quickly forgotten.
PHOTO FORMULA 1 is a collection of the work of 45 well-known photographers. As Ami Guichard remarks in his introduction to the book, the equipment has changed more than the photographer. The photographer's task has been made more easy thanks to technical progress in cameras, optics and film. But the conditions under which he must take his pictures have also changed, becoming 'less free, less human, less easy' according to Yves Debraine. But what counts now, and what has always counted, is the imagination and effort brought to Formula 1 by the photographer in order to obtain original, splendid or unexpected pictures — as this collection brings out to the full.
PHOTO FORMULA 1 has been created not only for those who are thrilled by motor racing of the past and of today, but also for all those who take action photographs professionally or for pleasure.
