Fast Forward
The geniuses over at Jalopy Journal's forums have set their minds to figuring out why cars look like they're leaning forward in early 1900s racing photos, as in this famous 1913 photo by Jacques-Henri Lartigue. The discussion plots the technical anomalies that make it happen as well as the accidental effect on pop culture—a million cartoon drawings of cars leaning as they race, all because of the distorting effect of a shutter speed accident.
—O. Karpinsky
September 25, 2007
