Latinx Lowrider car culture photographed in Kristin Bedford s Cruise Night
Kristin Bedfords Cruise Night (published by Damiani), takes us behind the curtain of this misunderstood subculture.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.- Kristin Bedfords new photo book Cruise Night pulls back the curtain on LAs Mexican American lowrider car culture, aiming to tackle the misconceptions and celebrate the uniqueness of this marginalized community. Bedford is the first woman to create an original large-scale body of work about this American movement. Cruise Night is available to purchase from Tuesday May 4, 2021.
Since its beginnings in the 1940s, the prolific lowrider tradition has provided a platform for Mexican Americans to have a voice and be seen. Today there are tens of thousands of lowriders in Los Angeles, still, lowriding is often pigeonholed as craft or folk art and stereotyped as crude and dangerous. Through intimate and unstaged photography, Bedford reveals a different reality a tradit