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- Title
Auto-Specularity: Driving through the American Night.
- Authors
Isenstadt, Sandy
- Abstract
The article discusses the aesthetics and social impact of the automobile headlight, focusing on the ways in which it confined and adjudicated the occupants of the vehicle and created a social dynamism for those who interacted with its glare. The author discusses the introduction of the headlamp in the 19th century in the U.S. and its impact on night driving in regulating a technological space. Topics include visual elements of driving at night such as blind spots, streaks, and flashes, several images of headlights in periodicals such as "Scientific American," "Light Magazine," and "Auto Fun," and comments by former New York Secretary of State Mitchell May about headlight intensity and pedestrian safety.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AUTOMOBILE driving at night; AUTOMOBILE lighting; SCIENTIFIC American (Periodical); AUTOMOBILE periodicals; HEADLIGHT glare; NIGHT vision; MAY, Mitchell; PEDESTRIANS; AUTOMOBILE driving -- Social aspects; AUTOMOBILES; SAFETY; PICTURES
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2011, Vol 18, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2011.0023