Circa Press – Alejandra Guerrero – “Auto Erotica”

Auto Erotica is Alejandra Guerrero’s second monograph with Circa Press and follows ‘Wicked Women’ down the same electrifying road.

‘Cars are in my bloodstream – I love them as objects of desire and adventure. I’ve owned many cars and made countless road trips, and always get a kick from being behind the wheel.’ – Alejandra Guerrero

Introduction by Miss Rosen…

With Auto Erotica, photographer Alejandra Guerrero takes us on a seductive visual ride.

A breakdown on a remote road, a double life, a body shop after hours, daydreaming in traffic, an illicit tryst … these are just some of the scenes in which she makes the car a protagonist.

Guerrero grew up against a backdrop of sleek automobiles. As a child she would sit in the driver’s seat of her mother’s Mercedes and imagine herself one day being in control of such an elegant machine.

Her father was a mechanical engineer who made a hobby of fixing up cool cars, and she would watch him at work, taking in the details of fins and fenders.

It sparked a fascination, which became an adult passion, which eventually inspired an entire body of work.

(Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer whose focus is on art, photography, and culture. Her work has been published in books, magazines, and websites including Time, Vogue, Aperture, and Artsy, among others).

Model: Miranda Barrie, Los Angeles, 2022

1 October 2023

Hardcover

26 x 30cm

10 ¼ x 11 ¾ in

208pp

240 colour and b&w photographs