The way it was, 1972
Richard Kelley

Photography : HD print, fine art print

50 x 75 x 4 cm 19.7 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch

€550
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Numbered and limited to 3 copies

2 copies available

Signature

Signed artwork

Authenticity

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Dimensions cm inch

50 x 75 x 4 cm 19.7 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Black floater frame

Artwork dimensions including frame

54 x 79 x 5 cm 21.3 x 31.1 x 2 inch


Tags

Black and white

Sport

Vehicles

1970s

Car racing

Vintage

Grey

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

The look of Formula One in 1972. McLaren’s Barry Sullivan, left, and Peter Davis standing guard over Denny Hulme’s race-ready Yardley Team McLaren-Ford M19C.
One lone mechanic. One engineer. One journalist. One photographer.
Forty four years ago, looking at the starting grid for the 1972 United States Grand Prix, no one could have dreamed of the changes that would occur to this team, to this sport, and to the drivers and their machines by the end of the decade, not to mention the world-wide business spectacle of Formula One today.
Nothing will ever be both this simple and this profound again.

I made this image with a Nikon FTN, and a Nikon 50mm f/1.4 lens, using Kodak Tri-X film rated at 400 ASA, 1/125 second at f/8, late in the afternoon of October 8, 1972, at the Grand Prix Circuit at Watkins Glen, NY, USA.

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Professional art gallery • France

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Imagine it at home

Richard Kelley, The way it was
United States  • 1957

Presentation

I am in turn a photojournalist, writer, broadcaster and historian. I gravitated to the works of W. Eugene Smith, Magnum photographers; Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Joseph Koudelka. Their common approach became my mantra: make images that tell a story; withdraw; disappear; leave vanity aside; and make emotional, elegantly composed images that point to a truth about your subject. From 1972 to 1984, I captured the intimate moments of drivers fighting to survive in F1, a time that was forcing the most significant changes to drivers, cars and technology in history. Grand Prix. 


From the beginning, it was clear that these technological developments influenced the spirit, the passion and the courage that I registered at that time, and I decided then to adopt the style of Cartier-Bresson and to become "a fly on the low wall"; get as close as I could to these pieces of history, without influencing the emotion or drama of the moment. 


Throughout the decades that followed, working in the press or heading departments of international automotive brands, I could not forget my intimate Grand Prix images that I had captured while being a "fly on the wall". in the world of Formula One. So I brought them together to present them to the general public. I also returned to creating new digital works, both monochrome and color, oriented to time and its influence on nature and the world at large. 

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