This is one of Taschens inexpensive, all color, pictorial reference books, full of cars lifted from fifties ads and loosely organised in date order. It does include thirty or so complete ads. Now you will have a chance to study the photo-realist style of unknown commercial artists and see how they handled all that chrome. I think many of these paintings must have had two artists, one to do the precise detailing of the vehicle and another to handle the much more casual backgrounds and people. There are some photos included, by the late fifties paintings had given way to studio or location photography and I think a little bit of sparkle had been lost from the images.
As far as I can see most of these pictures have been lifted from the wonderful 925 page All-American Ads 50s by Jim Heimann, it has a 188 page chapter on car ads and here you get to read the copy as well.
