Sundays With Von Dutch

Created by Richard Karl Koch over the course of four Sundays in 1970 for the L.A. Timessupplement Westmagazine, this collection of intensely personal photography subverts today's prevalent recollections of Kenneth "Von Dutch" Howard, capturing him during a rare period of relative domestic bliss. Commissioned on the premise that many believed Von Dutch-the "father of modern pinstriping" and a guiding light in the creation of hot rod culture-was dead, Koch's photography and the accompanying Westarticle, "Make Me a Machine That Will Be a Piece of Art" by Tom Nolan, proved that Dutch was as prolific and creative as ever. Koch's photographs, the vast majority of them seen here in print for the first time, are accompanied by the original Westarticle and by a history of Dutch's work, written for this volume by Tony Thacker, executive director of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. The resulting book is a must-have for kustom-culture aficionados and for those not yet familiar with a creative giant.Koch, Richard Karl is the author of 'Sundays With Von Dutch ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780760326268 and ISBN 0760326266.