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Welcome
to Stanford PhotoGraphics
We are a very small graphic design studio, providing traditional
marketing communications services— corporate identity, product
brochures, print ads, trade show displays, etc. — plus web
site development and hosting, web ads and Search Engine Optimization.
Twenty-five
years of scrambling around in the corporate, design and advertising
world has fueled our creative engines. We’d like to take that
experience and roll it on into the future.
Michael
Stanford, our founder and proprietor, does most of the design
work around here, and has also been busy for the past few years
getting into motorsports photography and photojournalism. Specializing
in custom paint and pinstriping, he is a contributing editor to
Street Rodder
magazine (look for his articles in the October and December 2005
issues, and the February, October and November 2007 issues) and
is the Southern California correspondent for AutoArt
magazine, the international publication for the custom paint and
automotive art industry.
Beyond
just promoting our design and photography work, we’d like this
site to
grow into a forum for and about car guys and the stuff we all like:
hot rods, custom cars, race cars, car art and various automotive
art forms.
Hopefully
as the site grows, we'd like to promote and celebrate custom painting
and painters, advertise pinstriper’s events and products, and
explore new ways to help car folks enjoy the art and culture of
custom car design and decor. Photographic galleries, articles and
discussions will someday be incorporated into the site as we find
the time. Please visit often to see how this is going.
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Proprietor’s
Philosophy:
A
former pinstriper, sign painter and lifelong car guy,
Michael has been shooting vehicles for 40 years, concentrating
his interest primarily on race cars, antique cars, customs
and hot rods.
“The
photographic subjects I like best are customized cars
and hot rods, but I rarely shoot the entire vehicle.
My images are compositions that I find in small areas
of a custom paint job. I
try to record the play of light, reflections, and textures
that I find in the airbrushed, candy-colored and pearlescent
finishes.
I've
done pinstriping and custom paint myself, so this is
an art form that has held a strong attraction for me
over the years. Photograpically
providing a new way to look at this artwork is my current
creative contribution. Through my pictures I’m
trying to bring to the viewer some of the visual excitement
I experience when I look at an elegant pinstriping design,
a perfect pearl fender or a wild set of flames. I really
love this stuff.”
“Viewed
simply as abstract compositions, the images feature
areas of vibrant, interlocking color and light, sometimes
with very few clues to identify them as car parts. Richly
colorful, they can evoke a range of sensory responses:
a sense of motion, nostalgia, elegance, fear, whimsy,
chaos. Mostly, though, they’re just fun to look
at.
My
pictures appeal to painters, stripers, car enthusiasts,
kustom kulture aficionados, art students, interior decorators...virtually
anyone who is interested in design, color, custom painting,
airbrush illustration, pinstriping or vehicle artwork.”
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Michael Stanford
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