RUST IN PEACE
“It all started in Cognac, in this French town in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, at the edge of a small village close by. I fell in love with Rosalie.” Sounds like the first line of a Tracy Chevalier novel, not a photographic tome about abandoned cars being consumed by nature… but when you learn Rosalie isn’t some fresh-faced damsel, she’s a 1935 Citroen delivery truck, the weird world of Dieter Klein’s Lost Wheels begins to unfold.
On primary inspection these are 200-plus pages of grade A photography – beautifully lit, artfully composed portraits of decaying cars being eaten by surreal, fairy-tale backdrops.
