Reyner Banham: The Man Who Wrote Too Well
Reyner Banham lost review of the designs of crash-test dummies.
Reyner Banham was not only an extraordinary scholar but also a prodigiously productive journalist. Yet few of his approximately 750 articles have ever been anthologized and most are out of circulation. Consider his remarkable analysis, from the early 1970s, of a legendary crash-test dummy, a “good ju-ju of technology, a modern prevento mori.”
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