NEW YORK, NY.- In Here to There: Photographs from the Road Ahead (Damiani Books, 2025), Clark Winter’s perceptive photographs of cars across the decades—and from around the world—revel in nostalgia while revealing the subtleties of our relationship with automobiles, drivers, and the things we see along the way. Since their invention, cars have been one of the driving forces behind America’s constantly changing culture, shaping the country’s sprawling cities and suburban society, but also inspiring films (from “American Graffiti” to “The Fast and the Furious”), songs (from the Beach Boys’ zippy “Fun, Fun, Fun” to Bruce Springsteen’s anthemic “Thunder Road”), and an endless parade of road-trip books.

Over the course of half a century, Clark Winter captured images of the car as a symbol of Americana while finding its global spirit in countries such as Spain, Italy, and China. Winter’s photographs, made in both color and black-and-white, are not simply focused on the vehicles but rather on the way people physically relate to cars, turning each image into a stage upon which a drama quietly (and sometimes comically) unfolds between owner, passenger, and passer-by. Because these dramas are universal—eating ice cream in the backseat, waiting for a pump at the gas station, stuck in traffic, busted for speeding—Winter’s wide-eyed, often light-hearted pictures invite us to recall and relive our own days of adventure, romance and speed.

Winter is a rare bird whose heart has always—and fiercely —inhabited the world of photography. When [his work as a financial executive] sent him to a foreign city, Winter… hit the streets, Leica over his shoulder, relentlessly looking for split-second scenes that, to him, felt like the quiet beginnings of a story – Bill Shapiro, From The Driver’s Seat: A Conversation with Photographer Clark Winter

Clark Winter had a long career in international finance, living and working in Spain, Mexico, the UK, and New York City, while traveling extensively throughout Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. He is a trustee of several cultural institutions, including the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation in New York City. This is his first book of photography.

Bill Shapiro is the former editor in chief of LIFE magazine.



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