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These Imperial Art photos came in to the Website in the summer of 2021 from Troy Paiva.
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
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