Color Photograph by Manuel Larrañaga Sardiñas: Chevy 147, Framed

Black car streaked with blue flames of reflection hunkers down in a gray street.

This framed color photograph is from Cuba, and is contemporary. It is pigment on paper. Pigment prints are made with pigment-based inks on paper, a process generally chosen for stable colour and fine tonal detail in contemporary photography. Photograph of a black car with a rounded body and a toothy chrome grille, shot from slightly above. Blue highlights ripple across the hood and fender. A yellow plate sits at the front, and a plain pale building rises behind. It is 13.5 inches wide and 12 high.

It has the polish of something that has never been told no.