Automotive Monogamy
Matteo Ferrari
Lazy Dog Press
English and Italian
Hardcover
First Edition
96 pages
210 x 280 mm
2025
ISBN 9788898030927
An idea, born a bit by chance, becomes a photographic project, with curious and interesting anthropological implications: a kind of ‘monogamy’ – the one with one’s l car – that some owners carry on for decades, growing old together with the mechanical vehicle, which is thus, little by little, almost assuming a soul.
The search for subjects is done mainly in two ways: the author leaves small messages on every old car he sees around town, and he also occasionally stops people driving these veterans. He also tells everyone he knows about the project, asking them to investigate in their families and, in turn, to spread the word among relatives and friends.
Then the meeting takes place, to immortalise the passage of time in this particular symbiosis, actually, between man and car: in the time lapse between ‘yesterday and today,’ in fact, the adventures and memories of an entire existence are interwoven.
Automotive Monogamy – aimed at lovers of photography and the human spirit – collects in these 96 pages and 70 photos the stories of the people behind each car, telling both visually, thanks to his shots collected in Italy, Argentina and the United Kingdom, and through the short texts that accompany them, their singular and often ‘epic’ stories.
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About the Artist
Matteo Ferrari began photography at the age of 10, and from then on, photography became part of his life, first as a passion and then as a profession. He worked as a fashion photographer for fifteen years between Milan and Paris, before moving to Costa Rica, where he currently lives and works. In his career, he has worked for major magazines such as Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Amica, Marie Claire, Grazia, Bolero, i-D, Condé Nast Traveller, Playboy and many others. In addition to commissioned work, he has never stopped working on his own personal projects and has taken part in more than twenty exhibitions around the world. In 2014, with a group of friends, he founded Gigantic, an independent gallery in Milan. He is also one of the two founders, with Luca Merli, of Onde Nostre, a video project about surfing that has won numerous awards at several international festivals in the field. In 2015, Onde Nostre also published, with Lazy Dog, the celebratory volume Onde Nostre, Look where I took you.
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About the Publisher
Established in 2012, Lazy Dog Press is an independent publishing house specialising in visual culture. Our operations are spread across Milan, where the headquarters is located, Verona, housing administration, coordination, and the warehouse, and Modena, where our graphic design studio Bunker works. Our books are meticulously created, designed, and crafted with a focus on quality materials, manufacturing, and, above all, style. Our aim is to achieve an overall quality of the book, both in content selection and form.
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