Publisher Description

In the tradition of her landmark coffee-table book Roadside America: The Automobile and the American Dream, renowned automotive visionary and award-winning photographer Lucinda Lewis wows lovers of classic automobiles and popular culture with her photographic tribute to one of the world's most iconic automobiles--the Chevrolet Bel Air. This pictorial essay of the Bel Air car series is a must have book for anyone who appreciates classic American cars. Lewis has selected some of her favorite photographs from the vintage Bel Air series in their natural habitat - the highways and byways of America. The result, Chevrolet Bel Air: Car Culture Classics Volume 1, is a visual feast of chrome-laden Bel Air's and their artistically designed accessories and automotive design features set against the backdrop of roadside America with its gleaming neon-drenched 20th century architecture influenced by the rise of the automobile. You will never look at a Chevrolet Bel Air the same way again.

Author Biography

A childhood fascination with cars and airplanes has resulted in Lucinda Lewis becoming one of the world's premier automotive visionaries. Lewis's eclectic career inhabits the rarified intersection of cars, content and computer code. In addition to producing and archiving photographs, videos and information infused with a passion for preserving automotive culture at carculture.com, Lewis is a consultant on media metadata and semantic technologies including the emerging computer standards for autonomous driving. Lewis's artistic work has appeared in numerous publications and advertising campaigns, and her published works include American Cars, Power Behind the Wheel, Porsche: The Fine Art of the Sports Car, Roadside America: The Automobile and the American Dream, Car Culture: The Dashboard and Car Culture Stories: Chevrolet Bel Air. Find Lucinda Lewis on Twitter at @carculture and follow carculture on social media everywhere.

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