{"id":76276,"date":"2014-09-03T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T23:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=76276"},"modified":"2014-09-04T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:05:18","slug":"at-the-drive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/at-the-drive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Drive-In"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dixon City, Pennsylvania. Photo: Stefanie Klavens<\/p><\/div>\n

For her new series, \u201cVanishing Drive-ins,\u201d the photographer Stefanie Klavens scoured the nation for extant drive-in theaters\u2014there are fewer than four hundred now, she says, down from more than four thousand in the fifties\u2014and photographed them with plenty of saturation and long exposure times. The result is a jarring (albeit beautiful) exercise in anachronism: late-model cars are swathed in the cheery neon of the fifties and sixties, suggesting a concept of Americana at once indelible and fleeting. Klavens explains the demise of the drive-in:<\/p>\n

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Over time, changing real-estate values began to have an effect on the drive-in. Land became too valuable for a summer-only business. Widespread adoption of daylight saving time in the mid-1960s subtracted an hour from outdoor evening screening time. The decline was further hastened by the advent of VCRs and home video rentals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can see more of her photos on Beautiful\/Decay<\/a> and at her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Malta, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For her new series, \u201cVanishing Drive-ins,\u201d the photographer Stefanie Klavens scoured the nation for extant drive-in theaters\u2014there are fewer than four hundred now, she says, down from more than four thousand in the fifties\u2014and photographed them with plenty of saturation and long exposure times. 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