Imperial ART by Troy Paiva

 


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Imperial Floaters

 

These Imperial Art photos came in to the Website in the summer of 2021 from Troy Paiva.
Here's what Troy had to say about these very creative images:

Here are my favorite 22 images. I'm a night photographer that specializes in abandoned sites: decommissioned military installations, abandoned amusement parks and hospitals, played-out mining towns of the 19th century and bypassed roadside ghost towns of the 20th, and all manner of junkyards, including derelict ships and airliner boneyards. I haunt a lot of automotive junkyards, shooting dynamically designed cars on their deathbeds. After thirty years of doing this, many space age Imperials have passed before my lens. I love their extreme styling and always seem to gravitate towards them. Don't be fooled into thinking these are digital fakes: what you see is what I lit and shot that night. Most of these cars ended up in the crusher after I shot them. Exceptions are the movie cars and Winfield's custom.

If my style seems familiar, you may have seen it before: I've had five books published, done museum and gallery shows in NY, LA, SF and the EU. My images have appeared in print on five continents and received 100s of millions of internet hits.

Troy Paiva
www.lostamerica.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lostamerica/

 

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Imperial Acres

 

 

Imspeerial

 

 

Imperial Swoop

 

 

Glowing Webs

 

 

the Cerulean Hornet

 

 

Spider of Destiny

 

 

Before the Feature Starts

 

 

Shoved by Ty Cobbs Ghost

The 2 previous images are of the 1959 movie prop cars from the 1994 "Cobb" biopic, forgotten in a high desert movie prop junkyard north of LA.

 

 

Snicket Float

 

 

Count Olafs Eyes

 

 

the Monster in the Back Seat

The three preceding images are of one of the "Lemony Snickett" movie 1960 Ghia limos. This one is just a body on casters and cut in half for interior shooting. Found rotting in the same prop graveyard as the "Cobb" car, but this rare one was recently warehoused back in LA.

 

 

Floating Headlights

 

 

Crowned Jet

 

 

the Gold Crown

 

 

Opulant

 

 

Split Lip 2

 

 

Venus Jupiter and Speedbird

 

 

the Pitted Wings of Empire

 

 

Imperial Broadway

 

 

el Lincperialero

Gene Winfield's old shop car, part Lincoln, part Imperial, part Ranchero.

 

 

Dash with Keys

 

 

 

 


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