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| DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS photographs by a New York taxi driver |
Only a New York taxi driver would dare to drive and take pictures at the same time. David Bradford has been shooting for ten years and using his windshield as a second lens to photograph the metropolis. ...From time to time, as you cut across town on everyday business, New York's inherent theatricality seems to array itself before you with unusual economy, the grandness of the staging almost mocking the plainness of your business. You catch a morning cab to La Guardia, for instance, and instead of stiffing it out in midtown traffic, the driver bears north through Central Park on East Drive, edging upward along Madison Avenue, across 116th Street and finally onto the Triborough Bridge. In spring this is an inspired choice of routes, and the driver, gesturing at trees that will soon form a tunnel of green overhead, knows it. ...When the cab catches the Triborough on ramp, the city seems to revolve beneath you until it integrates these low rooftops with the taller buildings that lie beyond them. The river runs slowly downtown past the East Side's long flank. And all this theater lies threaded along the path of a single cab ride – the blaring chaos of midtown, the almost concupiscent pleasures of Central Park in spring, the vivid promptings and urgings of East Harlem. It seems forgivable, as you cross into Queens, to believe that it was arranged this way just for you. After all, tomorrow you will be an extra in someone else's epiphany. |
CONTENTS A Day At Night Another Day A Rainy Night and Day Snow, Day and Night |
 
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