<p>Like a cultural anthropologist, photographer and writer Michael McCabe’s explores the outrageous style of the Kustom Kulture movement in Japan (the adaptation and assimilation of a California-style hot-rod culture)—documenting the dynamic relationship between tradition and change.</p> <p>McCabe explains: “During the postwar period into the 1950s and 60s, Southern California youth embraced hot rods and custom cars as iconic representations that expressed the nuanced but raw power of youth. . . There is an interesting preoccupation among young urban Japanese about postwar American culture. It is not so much reproduction, but more creative re-invention . . . and cultural stylization is part of a nostalgic mystique that is being adopted.”</p> <p>McCabe’s photographs document Japan’s Kustom Kulture, from car shows such as the “Mooneyes Tokyo Street Nationals,” to custom car shops, to pin-stripers’ studios, to completely stylized car or bike aficionados in their period garb, and his text provides both history and context.</p> <p>Forward by Don Ed Hardy</p> <p>Japanese/English</p> <p>196 pages, Hardcover, 11.25&#215;8.75 inches, 2008</p> <p><span class="caps">ISBN </span>#978-0-945367-35-2</p> 2008-04-30T17:17:19-07:00 1404 1966802 Books 2008-04-30T17:17:19-07:00 2008-04-30T17:41:13-07:00 Hardy Marks Publications Like a cultural anthropologist, photographer and writer Michael McCabe’s explores the outrageous style of the Kustom Kulture movement in Japan (the adaptation and assimilation of a California-style hot-rod culture)—documenting the dynamic relationship between tradition and change. McCabe explains: “During the postwar period into the 1950s and 60s, Southern California youth embraced hot rods and custom cars as iconic representations that expressed the nuanced but raw power of youth. . . There is an interesting preoccupation among young urban Japanese about postwar American culture. It is not so much reproduction, but more creative re-invention . . . and cultural stylization is part of a nostalgic mystique that is being adopted.” McCabe’s photographs document Japan’s Kustom Kulture, from car shows such as the “Mooneyes Tokyo Street Nationals,” to custom car shops, to pin-stripers’ studios, to completely stylized car or bike aficionados in their period garb, and his text provides both history and context. Forward by Don Ed Hardy Japanese/English 196 pages, Hardcover, 11.25 x 8.75 inches, 2008 ISBN #978-0-945367-35-2 34.95 2008-04-30T17:17:19-07:00 manual 1134 4262292 deny 1 Default 1 29.95 1966802 true 1404 true 2008-04-30T17:41:13-07:00 2008-04-30T17:17:19-07:00 3855622 1 1966802 2008-04-30T17:41:13-07:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0002/0801/products/1405.jpg?1268030426 2008-04-30T17:17:19-07:00 3855632 2 1966802 2008-04-30T17:41:13-07:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0002/0801/products/1404b.jpg?1268030426 Title