Swiss artist Fabian Oefner has recently been inspired by Harold Edgerton’s super-slow motion freeze-frame art, applying it to classic cars. For this series, dubbed Disintegrating, Oefner explores 1967 Ferrari 330 P4. He begins with a simple sketch of what he’d like the ‘exploding car’ to look like. He then painstakingly disassembles and hacks up a model car, poses each fragmented, airborne piece, and takes a series of photographs. The lighting, angles, and backgrounds all have to be perfect. In post-processing, he trims and overlays each bolt and rivet—more than 1000 pieces, in some cases—into a single photo, creating the illusion that we’ve just seen a micro-second frame of an exploding car.
Source: Road & Track
