ANDREW BUSH: Julie Saul Gallery

Andrew Bush. (possible air conditioner malfunction)

Andrew Bush. Man Heading South at 73 mph...

Woman gliding...

Andrew Bush eventually devised a method of working whereby he attached a large format camera to the passenger side of his car and using a shutter release captured fellow drivers as they sped along the freeways.

The subjects of the portraits represent a cross section of the American public; a middle-aged man happily cruising along the coast in his white Porsche, a young Hispanic male behind the wheel of a decommissioned Yellow Cab, and a sexy young blonde woman in a blue car, her head thrown back in a twilight landscape. The car becomes an extension of the portrait.

Andrew Bush's idea of taking portraits of people in their cars is unconventional yet telling. That some of the subjects are aware of the photographer's presence while others are oblivious creates humor. As a viewer I am trying to 'read' both person and car, trying to figure out something about their identity in the same way I would a portrait.