Graffiti Generations is now available for purchase online!
You can also get a signed copy during Sonoma County art events, at the Petaluma Arts Center, or included with the purchase of any size Graffiti Generations art print.
The 1973 movie American Graffiti was set in a vaguely-1962 everytown. The location chosen to film most of this pre-Vietnam-era idyll was the small city of Petaluma, in southern Sonoma County. Those cruising streets are still here, celebrated ovr the decades since in an annual parade and civic events throughout each year that always include classics and hotrods.
NorCal Car Culture is a bigger-than-life, slightly-imaginary world with plenty of space for creative interpretation,not unlike the Old West of cowboy movies – but in the world of Car Culture nostalgia, everyone is a Good Guy. All ages can and do join in: Dads, daughters, neighbors, people who in everyday life might never otherwise connect.
Truly great show cars are never preserved in factory-fresh condition. Like a perfectly-tattooed arm, a true show car rises above its original manufacture to be a work of art.
These photos celebrate some of what I’ve seen over the past few years among local generations whose creative lives aim higher than the ready-made.
Second Printing, 2025
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