Fast Lane: The NASCAR Photography of Darryl Moran

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Inside Mark Martins’s Team Valvoline–Sponsored Car, Richmond International Raceway, Virginia, 1997

that light and dark is captured that’s different from today’s digital photographs. MORAN: I miss the look and feel of film, but that’s

it. I prefer everything else to be digital. There’s a depth and a realism that you don’t get with digital. I’m not saying you don’t get great photographs digitally, but there’s something about the look of film. It’s almost like comparing the sound of a CD to a vinyl record. I still enjoy listening to vinyl records, and honestly think it’s the best format to listen to music. VALERIO: One of my favorite photos gives a sense

of the interior of a spaceship-like, white car. Is that a human being in there? MORAN: That’s Mark Martin, one of the coolest

drivers. He is a genuine guy on and off camera. This is inside his car, where he’s surrounded by a steel cage and roll bars. VALERIO: Those are the things that protect the Harry Gant, 1996

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