Biography

Peter Crawford

photographer

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Thanks to the support of Justin Crawford, PC's images are slowly being uncovered for more people to enjoy. As time goes by we really want to build a shrine to this incredible man in Australian surfings history.

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following is a link to some crawford inspired clothes via insight crawford and gorrow collection

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Peter Crawford

The true status of Peter Crawford and his legacy is still being realised both in Australia's surfing history and around the world. With his sudden passing in bali, from an apparent snakebite, this colourful flower bloomed short and sweet. Being a major surfing photographer for both Australian surfing publication and the big US surfing magazines, PC has a library up there with the best in surfings archives. Some of the vintage classic surfing photography that came from PC's lens is still alive and in good health, but much of it has been lost to various events that are not worth mentioning.

"I am supposed to write the truth (whatever the hell that is) about the last days of a man who was not only a groundbreaking photographer in the thick of surfing from the formative years of professionalism, but was also himself one of the best surfers in the world, besides being pusblisher, writer, poet, philosopher, designer of fins and the archetypal kneeboard shape, a bonsai gardener, insomniac, husband, lover ("wonderful" I was assured), Father of three sons, the tighest of mates, tortured, unique, unknowable, a man who cried at sad movies, could sleep under tables at parties, read auras like morning newspapers, and learned his limits by regulary voyaging beyond them. Print worthy, Crawford's death was but a minuscule traction of remarkable life. His legacy, his work will endure beyond the life span of mere memory, portraits of unequalled intimacy with the worlds best surfers, both on land and deep inside the barrel, from Dee Why Point to Pipe, from cliff top to helicopter, his art a portal into life on the edge, into the unique, insightful, dangerous, transgressional and magestic Crawford world." By DC Greeen

Money raised from the sale of any of these images goes into restoring the Peter Crawford collection, dusting off slides and getting them scanned for prosperity.

This is a real icon in Surfing History and some of these images are destined for cult status in the surfing memoribilia world...in fact, they already are.

Peter Crawfords images are for sale, though at a premium. There have been some more images uncovered lately, and Justin Crawford is doing a good job of archiving the work and preserving the legacy.

Most of Peter Crawford's images are available as prints if the customer is prepared to understand that the images are highly sought after and valuable. Recently one of Peter Crawford's photos of Michael Peterson sold for $4500 at the 30th anniversary of the stubbies surfing contest at Burleigh heads. It was signed by MP and a one off large print aperhaps bought by a fatcat, but a stoke all the same.

To enquire about these images as photographic paper or canvas prints, signed prints, please email ac@switch-foot.com

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