Frey does L.A. car culture with a million little pixels
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James Frey, the writer famous for incurring Oprah’s great wrath with his ‘fictional memoir’ A Million Little Pieces, has now turned his attention to the City of Angels. Along with photographer Terry Richardson, Frey has produced Wives, Wheels, Weapons. It consists of three stories from Frey’s previous literary outing, Bright Shiny Morning, augmented with related photo essays from Richardson.
Setting up base camp at the Chateau Marmont, the pair trawled Los Angeles to get the right visual components.
“I was drawn to what is emblematic of L.A. car culture, the immersion of highways and being stuck on freeways. It was also the idea of L.A. culture, gang culture, east coast, west coast,”
says Frey. So that’s the wheels bit. As for the weapons, the cover shoot was done in a Los Angeles gun club. Photos for the wives section was shot at the house of John Melius, who wrote the screenplay for Apocalypse Now.
“The idea was just to do a cool book that would piss people off,”
says Frey. Wives, Wheels, Weapons has a limited run of 1,000 copies.