20 Comments

eerily wonderful.
Thomas
2009-09-29 13:41:20

great!
Raul.
Raul Krebs
2009-09-29 14:12:41

Funnily enough, I think the Diana shot is the weakest because of its elevated position from up on the embankment. The others benefit from being down on the road - you really feel like this could have been their last glimpse of the world. Great idea.
Nicholas Maroussas
2009-09-29 14:44:40

Simple. Spooky. Beautiful.
Ciara O'Meara
2009-09-29 16:21:39

Eeee! Much good shiver to be had with these.
Katy McDevitt
2009-09-29 17:23:50

thought Lynn Strait death place would have been in there
Richie Evans
2009-09-30 01:18:10

I'm not sure they're the precise locations - the Mark Bolan 'memorial' is further over the bridge than that. Having said that the brow of the bridge might well have been the spot where the car left the ground... Also, the Diana one clearly isn't the precise location. Still - they're good photos on a very morbid subject.
Ben Gilman
2009-09-30 10:24:33

Were all the photos taken at around the same time of day that the accident happened?
RJ Sauer
2009-09-30 21:50:13

The Sam Kinison one would have been a good addition. great concept though.
Woody
2009-10-01 01:16:43

What about Jayne Mansfield?
They even have a truck part named after her! It's on the back of the truck and it's called a "Mansfield Bar". For realz.
Lil
2009-10-01 06:07:55

:)
I drive one every day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niravameen/3937576618/

just remember not to speed like there is no tomorrow,
and it's oookay :)
Nirava
2009-10-01 08:08:47

I suspect they are all approximations. The actual site of James Dean's death, for example, is not part of the current roadway. (As reported here, among other places.)
Jaie
2009-10-01 14:12:51

very nice shots!
Simon Winnall
2009-10-02 13:09:22

Haunting. Really like it.
Andy
2009-10-02 15:01:29

I don't believe him. He just took photographs anywhere and just made it up. Who's going to check? Who cares if they aren't anyway. The modern desperation to find anything to give interest to the found object, in this case the banal location. Somebody died here, oo, ee. Scary.

http://www.jackgardner.co.uk
Jack Gardner
2009-10-02 18:16:29

I guess Jack Gardner sure told us.
Michelle
2009-10-03 00:07:01

This is a great idea! Morbid, but real great!
John W.
2009-10-08 19:40:40

RE: Jack Gardener and Not checking I can certainly vouch for the authenticity of the location of the Marc Bolan picture. I cycle it twice daily on my way to and from work it's on Rocks lane in Barnes, there is a small shrine on the side of the road.
Heather
2009-10-10 15:02:10

Pic of James Dean Memorial Junction is accurate but actual site of impact (original intersection) is second intersection ahead, where a modern transition lane to highway 46 was laid on the old 1950's roadbed. Head-on crash happened about where small signs are, then Dean's Porsche (traveling west, into the sun) spun to the right, onto the dirt shoulder near a telephone pole and barbed wire fence.

The telephone pole is long gone, but fence still exists and a small brass plaque clamped to the wire marks the spot. About a mile up the road, in the tiny hamlet of Cholame, a formal memorial commemorates Dean's life and tragic death at 24.
Steve Conlin
2009-10-11 03:43:45

I think this a load of pointless rubbish. The resulting photographs are poorly composed, poorly exposed and poorly seen. If anybody reads this that has any cash: how about sponsoring me to go and do a better job? I would use 1 camera , 1 35mm lens and possibly 1 flashgun.
Robert Norbury
2010-01-09 14:17:47

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