I Love Fast Cars: Photographs by Craig McDean - Hardcover

McDean, Craig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576870596 ISBN 13: 9781576870594

Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

Novel fashion photographer Craig McDean-he of the blazing Jil Sander and Calvin Klein campaigns-has a hankering for hot wheels and muscle cars, the kind built in back yards and driveways across America. He also loves to see them drag race, in quasi-formal circuits known as bracket racing. Taking a deliberately studied, off-key approach to the drivers, the machines, and the bonhomie of the small time drag racing circuit-seen in the frozen-moment release of a blue '72 LeMans bursting off the starting line, or in the -eating grin of a driver in his fire-orange early model GTO-McDean mimics the terse fluidity and gritty, sensual stasis of his enormously influential fashion work, bringing the full force of his sharp fashion s to bear on this iconographically American retro pastime. I Love Fast Cars marks a significant departure in the evolution of the over-hyped genre of fashion photography. Expertly sequenced by McDean in collaboration with the Paris-based studio M/M-fashion aesthetics + low culture = rock 'n roll - I Love Fast Cars transforms the laconic Brit's obsession for these lovingly crafted hot rods into a surprisingly seductive homage.

Edition details

• Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576870596
• ISBN 13: 9781576870594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 68