St Tropez

St TropezDavid Yarrow St Tropez St Tropez, France 2024 Edition of 12 Archival Pigment Print Brigitte Bardot enjoyed using her Albatross speedboat in St Tropez and we sensed that if we could source a vintage one, it would be a useful prop for this parody; it played emphatically to the era and the location. We did find one, but it had to come all the way from Goodwood in the UK. The buildings in La Ponche have a weathered timelessness that I knew would serve us

It muses on our electrifying present moment

But they are so much more magnificent than us - look into the orange person's face

In our research for the oil set we were building in West Texas

This normally requires a wide-angle lens and this can work against capturing the action in an immersive and detailed way

The Longhorn is clearly a Texas bar and we would say that it’s in West Texas

We then brought in a 1953 Ferrari 250 MM Vignale Spyder as the lead car and dressed the background with a Ford pick-up from the late 1940s

renowned for its elegance and function

a hand marked by time appears at the bottom

In so doing he coined the term “Manifest Destiny”

illustrating the external image take it all…

also has a sense of incompleteness

and cartoons to movie culture