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Updated: November 2, 2001 I LOVE FAST CARS "McDean, now a fashion photographer, goes back to the track and rekindles his youthful passion for speed with terrific results.... His shots has a wonderful fly-on-the-wall quality...Mc Dean treats man and machine with equal reverence. In his pictures, "...mixes stirring images of blazing hot rods...with shots of drag-racing families and friends at play... And yes, these folks are classic 'white trash.' Mullets abound; white Ts with lurid car designs stretch and strain over beer bellies; jeans are worn tight and pale. Yet McDean makes these people much more than the sum of their clichés. Through them, this book captures both the excitement of putting your foot down and the faint boredom of a weekend family ritual. All it misses is the whiff of gasoline." —The Face, 2 page excerpt "This book is full of Mustangs, Camaros, Plymouth Superbirds and Dodge Darts: lowered, jacked, blown and nitro'd. It's a festival of candy-colored muscle cars laying rubber and blasting off in a straight line... Aside from the studies in metal, you'll gaze at some truly frightening moustaches, bandanas, Marine or mud-flap haircuts and stoic pushrod widows with kids... The book is worth getting for the Travis Bickle lookalike alone." —Car "...a glorious technicolor celebration of the bonhomie of the small-time drag racing circuit. Faded denims, cap sleeves and plaid shirts reign while meat-filled barbeques, beer coolers and [cigarettes] reside as track essentials." —i-D "[McDean's] images of a definitively middle American pursuit include obvious white trash iconography—mullets, tank tops, beer coolers, fat policemen—but the cars are the stars. Big, bright, stupidly powerful, gruesome-grilled pet dinosaurs in a world of cuddly Pokemon town cars." —Arena, 2 page excerpt “Fast living and fashion photography have been known to collide once or twice in the past, but seldom with such impact as they do in I Love Fast Cars, Craig McDean’s new book.” —“Details,” British GQ More Press Coverage !! |
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