Big hair, bold tattoos more than just a fad for Texas hot rod culture - Chron.com
Texas photographer George Brainard injects some extra fuel into the engines of both vintage hot rod lovers and fashion enthusiasts with his new book of photography, " All Tore Up: Texas Hot Rod Portraits. "I've been going to these cars shows and photographing these cars for years and realized at some point that it was the people that made up the culture that I found most interesting," Brainard said. Be it Aly – a domestic violence and sexual assault counselor from Houston – or Mari – the uber-happy Starbucks barista from Japan – Brainard's hot rod portraits capture a sense of individualistic pride that runs deep in the culture and spans... "All Tore up: Texas Hot Rod Portraits" is available March 15 from the University of Texas Press. Source: www.chron.com
