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Hans Aarsman Vrrooom! Vrrooom! Design: Hans Aarsman
For the book Vrrooom! Vrrooom! the photographer and writer Hans Aarsman has combined a selection of his own car photographs with photographs from a whole variety of other sources. There is the sleek car photography of sales brochures. There are speed camera snapshots, street images and photos of accidents, aerial photos and speedway photos. Aarsman also introduces material from traffic analysis and market research. Did you know that until recently 95 percent of Volvo drivers in the Netherlands wore white underwear? Hans Aarsman (b. Amsterdam, 1951) is famous for his photography, work that has been published in Hollandse Taferelen (1989), Aarsmans Amsterdam (1993), Een engeltje dat over mijn tong piest (1995) and other publications. For a number of years Aarsman wrote a column on sport and related subjects for de Volkskrant newspaper, as well as more extended pieces for a variety of books and periodicals. |
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Of course cars are smelly, they are ugly, they get in the way and they can be fatal. But they are also beautiful, they are practical, they are a status symbol and offer freedom of movement. A car is something to dream about. Now so many dreams have been fulfilled that there is barely any freedom of movement to talk of. The roads are gridlocked and the streets are chock-a-block. With so many cars around it is better that we treat them as our allies.