Smoke and Mirrors av Hoxton Mini Press, Adam Hay-Nicholls

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<b>An groundbreaking book of car photography, revealing the car''s unique role in our culture<br></b><br>Car photography often evokes the same recycled tropes. Predictably slick, hi-spec images on the front pages of glossy magazines, or huge blow-ups on giant billboards which have one designed aim: to sell a lifestyle. But our relationship with cars is so much more meaningful than these images might suggest. Like the camera, the car has changed the way we explore the world. With cars came road trips, and with road trips came some of the most important photographic documentaries of our time. A car is a vehicle not just for transport but for our hopes, desires and dreams. <br><br>In <i>Smoke and Mirrors</i>, a selection of world-renowned and up-and-coming photographers come together to pay tribute to the car. From Nick Turpin''s images of ''donut'' skid marks, Todd Hido''s painterly landscapes taken through wet windscreens and William Green''s shots of sleeping Tokyo taxi drivers, these