Comments on: medford taylor – bulldust

By: It's About Story Telling | Wooddell Photo

It's About Story Telling | Wooddell Photo — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:01:17 +0000

[...] Taylor’s “Bulldust” is a wonderful example of grit and [...]

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Thu, 31 May 2012 00:15:47 +0000

MEDFORD

i think we might as well tell this group the truth (yup it hurts)…the fact that we both were newspaper boys for the same newspaper in Norfolk when we were kids, long before we were to later meet in grad school at the University of Missouri grad school of journalism when you had just come back from Vietnam and Sue was pregnant and Cliff Edom hated us both for being revolutionaries and drinking cokes and laughing with girls in the darkroom almost got us kicked out of school before we landed newspaper jobs in Houston and Topeka and before we both shot for Time Magazine and then ended up traveling around the world for NatGeo and getting stoned when we met when not on assignment and i slept on your sofa during divorce and well the party was on and well i am exhausted just telling this much of it…..relax,i will stop it here..won’t go into Honduras trip…no won’t…save that for the movie..sorry Medford, but you mighta known this would happen..

beautiful work here Medford , which for sure you know i have long well appreciated….and somebody above mentioned you were obviously not an emerging photographer which i am sure made us both laugh…in the very best sense you are emerging and i cannot wait to show the folks here someday your Mexico work and i for sure mostly wait to see your next…you keep on keeping on…who could ask for more…

abrazos bro, david

By: medford taylor

medford taylor — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:11:11 +0000

DAVID, ANTON and DIEGO….Thank you for your patience and unheralded backstage work in producing this essay and Burn magazine everyday. To the Burn readers who have so graciously commented, a sincere thank you also. It is gratifying to see that your work can have another life and not just die with the expiration of an issue of a magazine.

I often marvel at how ‘ideas’ have been the magic carpet that flew me off to many strange and wonderful ‘life-adventures.’ Today, I looked back through the Burn archives and I marvel at how David’s ‘idea’ has, in a very short time, become a much respected and emulated, avant-garde international magazine. Good on you mate and all those of you who have played a part in this incredible Burn adventure.

Peace

By: Juliette Mills

Juliette Mills — Wed, 30 May 2012 00:35:24 +0000

What a great body of work. Powerful, beautiful and interesting – transports me to a place I’ve never been to. Shows me a unique way of life through a unique artist’s eye. Great music too. The colour argument going on here is a waste of valuable discussion space, because of the spirit dampening tone, not because it isn’t interesting to discuss aesthetic values or perception or whether photographs are ‘transparent’ showing reality, or even the vision of a viewer, crystal clear through their delivery of words, versus the vision of the artist.. for a photograph is a work of art, not pure reality – even on film, even without photoshop. If you want only the reality and no soul or style, just go travelling with open eyes and no camera. But even then, your view will be tinted by your life and your character. A good photograph surely shows the photographer’s vision, one human’s portrayal with his camera, his history and his dreams. I like this particular vision a lot. And the portrayal. Just love the atmosphere in no 23, 12 and 36, and the juxtaposition of hard and soft subject matter. And the cat at the bar is a true gem.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:41:49 +0000

I enjoyed this essay and it’s also nice and long, as I am usually left wanting more. Isn’t this light just standard early morning and late afternoon magic light with the saturation pushed up a little? Probably the light is a little too glorious for what I’m absolutely certain is a very tough life and job.
Hey taking photos without being dependent or tied down to Photoshop must be so very liberating. I’ve always found messing around with my images a real drag and I think I’ll give this a try. I bet it will be rather like the same experience I suffered when I spent years playing electric guitar with a load of effects like wah wah, delay (echo), reverbs, distortion and switching to nothing else but an acoustic guitar. Then realizing I wasn’t as good as I thought and hell that was a nasty shock, so hard to play something “real”without all the fanfare and flashy extras. I felt like giving up everyday for nearly a year and then suddenly I forgot my “crutch”.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:07:46 +0000

Powerful and in your face.
I know it sounds like a corny movie review…yes, yes… but that is just how I feel. Honestly.
Great work!
I can see this over and over again and not get tired.

By: Glenn Campbell

Glenn Campbell — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:15:26 +0000

I’ve lived and worked in the area where Medford shot that series…and I remember it well…seeing his take on my familiar was an inspiration to me as a youngster and probably stayed with me as I was figuring out the possibilities of a life making pictures somewhere where the light is so oppressive and all encompassing, where the success of a whole week, hundreds of kilometers and hours spent getting to know people can be measured in 1 picture in the afternoon where the outback has reluctantly given up a jewel.
When you are 1 of 2 people in a hundred square miles, and the other one thinks you are a soft handed city type , photoshop is the last thing on your mind…don’t need it.

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:20:39 +0000

And Mike ii think Imants is a great guy…
I met u personally and u know my feelings about u too :)), positive,
But I think that Imants did not cross a line with his theories…
Mine, his, your theories are welcomed and always subject to scrutiny and examination…
But I think we got rid of hostility few years ago..
( ha ha, and I was – coincidentally- causing most of it… Lol)…
Good Ol’days!!! Glory days..
But yeah point is: let’s leave defense behind us and let’s move on with supporting our case whichever/whatever it is..
Love and peace
And thank you all for the “food for thought”.. I was starving as usually..

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:04:07 +0000

Imants :) I don’t think u ever confused DAH with photoshop as far as I recall

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:59:47 +0000

I “Over saturated colours make it all too nice and glossy ………. a long way from how the reality.The colours literary take the heat out that dirty, dusty, grimy work”
“The landscape out there is a lot more subtle and creeps up on anyone who is out there “
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I’ll have to agree on this one..! it’s a point for sure

By: Imants

Imants — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:59:28 +0000

I don’t know where I mentioned David in reference to photoshop in this thread……..please indicate where if I have

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:10:30 +0000

first off , i have never saved a picture in Photoshop EVER…i have no idea how to use Photoshop
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sorry to interrupt but I have close memories of North Dakota..
I can guarantee to ALL that there is NO PHOTOSHOP installed in David’s laptop..
Dead serious!
That was my first question I asked him in that North Dakota coffe shop:
“Dude!!??? it’s 2012 and you still have no photoshop ? Like not even an older version??!!”
No, nope, nada…
I’m a witness!!!!

By: Imants

Imants — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:09:53 +0000

I never stated that the work was Americancentric I stated that mw’s responses are Americancentric.

I didn’t state that he or anyone cannot take images in this manner just pointed out the effects of the colour palette used and backed it up
I “Over saturated colours make it all too nice and glossy ………. a long way from how the reality.The colours literary take the heat out that dirty, dusty, grimy work”
“The landscape out there is a lot more subtle and creeps up on anyone who is out there “

By: Imants

Imants — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:58:44 +0000

Not a personal attack I stated that you are taking it from a American perspective and that what is here is from a very different heritage. This is something that you are not accepting. Come out here and you will see that the subject matter interaction with the light though harsh is a lot more subtle. I really disagree that this essay is a reflection of what is out there.

By: Milli

Milli — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:46:23 +0000

Amazing work.

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:19:12 +0000

IMANTS … MW

first off , i have never saved a picture in Photoshop EVER…i have no idea how to use Photoshop…a great tool but i do not use it…i am a transparency film shooter by trade…i get it in the camera…click that’s it….you may also inspect my raw files anytime….the light in my work is the light that was REALLY THERE…sure, carefully chosen perhaps, maybe not everyone’s color palette choice, but mine…

by the way, i too have worked in the Aussie outback…the light is a blaring killer for 90% of the day…somebody COULD choose to overexpose and do it that way..fine, maybe somebody will…but Allard and Medford and Glen Campbell and many others have chosen this palette…i fail to see the difference between choosing this pallet Imants and all the stuff you do in Photoshop with all of your imagery….i like what you do….but why suddenly others must show “how it really is”, when you have free reign and totally support a manipulated image?? when i remember the outback, i remember it pretty much the way Medford has it here…and i fail to see how this is somehow Americancentric…we in America love Aussiecentric including your often brilliant work…can’t we just all get along??

cheers, david

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:52:35 +0000

Go Medford!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hope to see you in Look3!

By: mw

mw — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:56:14 +0000

Ah, more personal attacks from imants. I can understand and feel compassion for your self-loathing and sociopathic disrespect for others, but I find it disgusting on an entirely different level how you constantly shit all over David’s web site, especially considering how much he does for you. I know for a fact that many people have either quit commenting here, or just don’t, because there’s always a good chance you’ll jump on them with your nasty little attacks. David and others constantly make excuses for you, saying you’re a nice guy in real life. Well, if that’s the case, you should consider examining your online behavior and try to return some of the respect and benefit of the doubt you’ve been shown by David and so many others on so many occasions. Why can’t you let people interested in photography have interesting chats about photography without feeling the need to launch petty personal attacks?

As for your interesting point about photoshop games rather than light, maybe a little, but I think not so much. One can certainly get that saturated effect with that kind of light in camera if one knows how to go about it. David has made a good part of his career doing just that and there are many excellent examples in the Rio project. Do you think his work is just tourist trap shit that’s nothing but photoshop?

By: Imants

Imants — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:58:01 +0000

Heritage is different but as you are American centric you just don’t understand subtlety and difference……… still the colours are digital Photoshop games in this series not light.

By: mw

mw — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:49:48 +0000

It’s a nearly universal story that goes back to the dawn of human civilization, hence I suspect, it’s appeal.