PRAISE AND REVIEWSįROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE Join Kristin Bedford and the Los Angeles Lowrider Community for the release of 'Cruise Night' at the Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park Sunday, October 3 from 10AM–4PM, photographer Kristin Bedford will celebrate the release of Cruise Night, her best-selling book on Mexican American Lowrider culture, with the Los Angeles Lowrider Community at the Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park. Featured image is reproduced from ‘Kristin Bedford: Cruise Night'.
With bright color photography and a unique female vantage point, Cruise Night is an original look at a prolific American movement set against the Los Angeles cityscape. Bedford’s photos explore the nuances of cars as mobile canvases and the legendary community that creates them. Her images offer a new visual narrative around the lowrider tradition and invite outsiders to question prevalent societal stereotypes surrounding this urban Mexican American culture. Known for her quiet portraits of American cultural movements, Los Angeles–based photographer Kristin Bedford’s new work, Cruise Night, is an intimate and unstaged exploration of Los Angeles’ Mexican American lowrider car culture.įrom 2014 to 2019 Bedford attended hundreds of lowrider cruise nights, car shows, quinceañeras, weddings and funerals. Scenes from the Mexican American lowrider life: a clothbound photobook documenting a vibrant LA car culture