Form Follows Function: The Art of the Supercar - Hardcover

A journalist and broadcaster, Stuart Codling has worked in motorsport and automotive writing for more than a decade, covering sports car racing in the United States before joining F1 Racing, the world’s biggest-selling Formula 1 magazine, in 2001. He has appeared as an F1 expert on TV and radio, hosted for Renault F1, and contributes to F1 Racing, Autosport, Autocar and the Red Bulletin. He is the author of the Motorbooks best-seller Real Racers: Formula 1 Racing in the 1950s and 1960s. He lives in Farnham, Surrey, England. www.stuartcodling.com

James Mann is one of the world’s leading car and motorcycle photographers, with more than twenty years of experience shooting for car and bike publications, the motor industry, and businesses all over the world. His work has appeared within and on the covers of more than forty books and has provided stunning visuals for numerous magazines, including Classic and Sportscar, CAR magazine, Automobile Quarterly, Autocar, Motorsport, Automobile magazine, and many others. His advertising clients include Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce, BMW, and Toyota, among others. James is the author of the Motorbooks titles How to Photograph Cars and Art of the Formula 1 Race Car. He lives in Dorset, England.

Frank Stephenson is one of the most distinguished automotive designers of his generation. His career began with BMW, where he designed the X5 model as well as the wildly popular re-imagining of the MINI Cooper in 1999. Moving on to Ferrari and Maserati, Stephenson penned the Ferrari 612 and 430, as well as the Maserati Quattroporte and MC12 before becoming design director for Fiat/Lancia and then Alfa Romeo. While there he led the design of the new Fiat 500, the Alfa Mito, and the Fiat Bravo. Stephenson joined McLaren Automotive as design director in 2008, where his first project was the design of the firm’s new supercar, the MP4-12C.

If automobiles can be works of art, then the supercar would represent the state of the art in its time. In the post-war period, manufacturers such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, BMW, Porsche, and Bugatti have used the supercar to not merely push the envelope but to rip it open, in the process redefining high performance, and manipulating form and function into cars of stunning beauty and legendary ability. In Form Follows Function: The Art of the Supercar, award-winning photographer James Mann brings twenty-two of the world s most beautiful and desirable supercars into the studio, revealing each machine as a work of art, born from the imaginations of some of the world s greatest designers. With historical and technical profiles by award-winning author Stuart Codling and commentary from automotive designer Frank Stephenson, Form Follows Function: The Art of the Supercar is a must-have for any automotive enthusiast s library.

A selection of twenty-two of the world s most beautiful and exotic supercars brought to life through the lens of award-winning photographer James Mann. With historical and technical profiles by award-winning author Stuart Codling and commentary on each car by automotive designer Frank Stephenson, Form Follows Function: The Art of the Supercar profiles the following legendary machines: