On Location: BMW with Stefan Milev
That’s how it goes when you have so many cars….over time, some go missing, and eventually one is lost completely.
This is what happened to BMW’s Garmisch concept car from 1970. The Garmisch was designed at the legendary Italian house Bertone, and exhibited at the Geneva Motor Show – its modern lines clearly influenced the design of the first 5 series in 1972.
The original concept car has disappeared, untraceable to this day. Maybe it will turn up as a barn find in fifty years.
But BMW didn’t want to wait that long, and rebuilt the car from the original design documents. The documents were all in black and white, so for colour, they had to consult the car’s original designer: Marcello Gandini, who created iconic sports cars such as the Lamborghini Miura and Countach, and the Lancia Stratos. The car was rebuilt by hand in Turin, in much the same way as the original 50 years ago, and the reborn Garmisch was exhibited at the Concorso d’Eleganza 2019 at Lake Como.
Read the fascinating story of its reconstruction here in Classic Driver.
On Location (Photos: Stefan Milev)
Stefan Milev photographed the Garmisch using this 8 x 10 wooden Deardorff camera from 1948 – the team travelled to locations around Italy’s Piedmont region using mostly Polaroid film on the vintage camera.
On Location (Photos: Speedball Productions)
Vlens Mueller-Feller of Speedball Productions: “During early preparations, images of the (possible) final result will start to appear before one’s eyes, when scouting I already can see the photographer or director saying “this is it, this is the perfect spot” (@put.model.here)… So this spot in the Italian Alps was one of those.” See their Instagram feed for more…
Final images
The resulting film images were scanned and graded by our artists in the Stuttgart studio to enhance the colour mood of the series.
See the full series on Behance here and on our site here.
Client: BMW Group
Photographer: Stefan Milev
Post Artists: Julia Ackermann, Lorenz Edelmann, Thomas Saalfrank / Recom Stuttgart
Creative Director: Antje List
Production: Speedball Productions and Pirate Productions
Model: Scott Temple
Photographer’s Agent: Wildfox Running
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