50 Years with Ferraris: Photographer Neill Bruce’s story of a lifetime working with Maranello Concessionaires
by Neill Bruce - available in the U.S. in time for the holidays.
US price: $60.00
CDN price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781910505823
Format: 270x210mm landscape 8.3in x 10.6in
Page extent: 192
Illustration: 200 illustrations
Packed with exquisite photographs, this memoir immerses the reader in a bygone era of classic Ferraris, from Dinos to Daytonas, Boxers to Testarossas.
This book takes the reader behind the scenes at Maranello Concessionaires Ltd., Britain’s famous Surrey-based importer of Ferraris founded by Colonel Ronnie Hoare. When Neill Bruce first photographed a Ferrari road car, a Dino 246 GT, in 1971, his work so impressed the powers-that-be at Maranello Concessionaires that they commissioned him to do all their promotional photography thereafter.
Whether shooting production cars, factory scenes or motor show stands, he has been in Ferrari’s orbit ever since. In this illustrated memoir of his 50 years with Ferraris, he presents some of his best pictures — the great majority in color — and tells engaging stories about how they came about, including some of the mishaps along the way. All Ferrari enthusiasts will be captivated by this informative book.
Key Topics:
• Top-quality photography, originally shot on large-format film and reproduced to today’s highest standards on gloss art paper.
• Road cars of the 1970s, including Dino 246 GT, 365 GTC4, 365 GTB4 ‘Daytona’, 365 GT4 Berlinetta Boxer, 308 GT4 2+2 and 308 GTB.
• Evocative photography of a visit to the Maranello factory in 1973, including a meeting with Enzo Ferrari and tours of the main factory, Scaglietti’s body-manufacturing facility and the Fiorano test track.
• Road cars of the 1980s, including 400i, BB 512i, Mondial QV Cabriolet, Testarossa, 288 GTO and 328 GTB.
• Inside the Maranello Concessionaires workshops, showing all sorts of fascinating scenes such as servicing, body repair and the paint shop.
• Road cars of the 1990s, including F40, 412, 348 ts, Mondial t, 512 TR, 456 GT 2+2 and 348 Spider.
• Insights into the techniques and procedures involved in car photography
About the Author:
Now semi-retired, Neill Bruce has been a professional photographer since 1971, working mainly in the automotive world. Ferrari has long been his speciality and his photographs of cars bearing the Prancing Horse badge have appeared in books and magazines worldwide. For many years he was the principal ‘stock advertising’ supplier of car calendars for many British and overseas companies, providing complete car calendars, and since 1983 he has been reproducing Ferrari factory literature on behalf of Maranello Concessionaires and latterly Maranello Classic Parts. He lives in Burghclere, Hampshire, England.
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