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Drive-By Shooting: Crawdaddy Shoots North Carolina by Car [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

by William C. Crawford (Author), Linda Holderness (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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Some of America’s greatest photographers roamed the country by automobile. They forever changed the context of artistic imagery. They eventually replaced traditional monochrome with color, and they shot the unnoticed aspects of the backside of our nation. Stephen Shore, Bill Eggleston, and Lee Friedlander were well known, working members of the New York school of photography.
William C. Crawford is their present day disciple. An avid minimalist shooter, Crawdaddy helped to invent Forensic Foraging, a throwback approach to modern digital photography. He spent five years sifting through his home state of North Carolina. He typically traveled by auto, keeping his mind wide open for often unseen photographic opportunities. This exciting volume exudes veneration for both his mentors and the Tar Heel State.
The heavily saturated, vivid color of Crawdaddy’s images drive the unmistaken synergistic tone of this book. The subject matter has been aptly described as “exotic southern funk”! It graphically illustrates the visual power of the the trite, trivial, and mundane. Most of all, it offers a refreshing new take for digital photographers.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07ZRXCJC1
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 29, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8907 KB
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William C. Crawford is a writer & photographer based in North Carolina. He got his start as a combat photojournalist in Vietnam. He was mentored by three Pulitzer Prize winning journalists. He co-invented Forensic Foraging, a throwback, minimalist approach for modern photographers. His book, FORENSIC FORAGING, co-authored with his colleague, Jim Provencher, reached Number 2 on both the Photography & Photojournalism Best Seller Lists.

Crawdaddy had a long career in social work where he was a powerful voice for the disadvantaged. He is also an avid tennis player. Nowadays, he travels America in search of compelling images which may suggest storylines for his writings.

Bill has published book reviews, short stories, essays, and images in more than 150 journals, literary magazines and newspapers. He was also an Adjunct Professor at UNC Chapel Hill/UNC Greensboro.

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J Shipley

Artistic mops

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2019

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This book is filled with vivid colors and interesting textures/images, images that inspire me to give attention to the seemingly mundane. Crawford’s work explores everyday objects that one might not normally give a second thought to, as one hurries through a day. Who would’ve imagined that drying mops could be artistic?

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2019

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Crawdaddy captures scenes you wish you would’ve captured with your camera.

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Don S and TeamGolfwell

I liked this very colorful book on North Carolina

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2019

I very much enjoyed “Drive-By Shooting - Crawdaddy Shoots North Carolina by Car” by Photographer William C. Crawford and in my opinion, I found this book to be a very entertaining pictorial of North Carolina. I was impressed by the way Mr. Crawford enhanced the colors to just the right extent which exaggerated the scene in just the right amount, but the enhancements were toned down which I felt kept the photographs realistic, interesting and thought-provoking.
William Crawford uses brilliant blues, greens, purples, yellows, reds in most of the photographs in this unique book in North Carolina. He intersperses black and whites and shows a variety of subjects as I turned the pages.

I liked many of the photographs such as the rusted farm instruments, ripe fruit, summer kitty as I used to work on a farm years ago. I especially liked the photographs on p. 141, which was taken in Asheboro, and I wonder why the window next to the display model is brightly blue in color. Also, I especially liked the “Hot Paint Job on a Cold Winter Day” on p. 163, the simple yet very richly colored picture of the okra pods on p. 165, the rooftop mannequin on p. 189 and of course, the photograph of Crawdaddy on p. 219.

Many of the photographs in this book initially look bright and colorful, but I found subtle meanings of how I, like many others, take for granted the ordinary events in our lives which shape our future and character. I felt the message of this photographer is to visually make us stop, pause and reflect - especially as we grow older - to see the colorful and somewhat magical beauty of our surroundings, the emotions generated, and experience our own flashbacks of our memories of our lives no matter where we live.

I thought Mr. Crawford’s book was unique and very well done.

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Tim Trask

People and Places You Haven't Noticed

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2019

On page 28 of Drive-By Shooting, you’ll see a through-the-window shot of a man sweeping the floor of what appears to be a restaurant. The caption is “After-hours Sweep-out.” This photo reminds me of Jackson Browne’s “The Load-Out,” an homage to the mostly invisible people who return the concert site to its normal vacant look after silence has replaced the weeping, screaming frenzy of a crowded, frantic event. In Crawdaddy’s photo, the man sweeping the floor of the deserted diner has on an apron that suggests that he has another invisible minimum-wage job during peak hours: a dishwasher.

This photo is typical of the photos that we see throughout this book in that it invites us to look at things and people we do not ordinarily notice. There are abandoned buildings, a backyard garden, a deserted lock on Cape Fear River, street art, and even a row of urinals lit by a harsh light that comes directly from above.

Most of these photos employ Crawdaddy’s patented technique of “forensic foraging,” where angles, contrast, and amplified colors direct us to take another look at our own worlds.

The e-book format makes it possible to view these 200+ photos, most in color, without the big bucks a print version would cost. Well worth the investment of $2.99.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019

William Crawford has a great eye for the drive-by, for that person, place, thing that most of us miss in the passing. Here he takes his camera on the road through his native state of North Carolina and brings us along with a vivid series of photographs. Sweet candy for the eye!

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