Comments on: mr. walker by john gladdy http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:17:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: AndreaC http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46435 AndreaC Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:17:16 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46435 Excuse me, I am a bit stuck finding my way around this Burn site. Where is reception? I have a question. Cheers. Excuse me, I am a bit stuck finding my way around this Burn site. Where is reception? I have a question. Cheers.

]]> By: andrew b. http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46379 andrew b. Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:34:29 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46379 Looking at the photo before reading comments and seeing the description.... I love the shadow - almost a cartoon characature of the silhouette, made sinister by the smoke and sharp angled knife-shadow being "held" out threateningly at the waist....the shadow lines drawing my eye to the head/face and the spot of bright flare over the head....the lines echoed in the window panes.... Like this one a lot, very nice portrait. good light, all. a. Looking at the photo before reading comments and seeing the description….

I love the shadow – almost a cartoon characature of the silhouette, made sinister by the smoke and sharp angled knife-shadow being “held” out threateningly at the waist….the shadow lines drawing my eye to the head/face and the spot of bright flare over the head….the lines echoed in the window panes….

Like this one a lot, very nice portrait.

good light, all.
a.

]]> By: Imants http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46035 Imants Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:23:10 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46035 "Arranging the hit on Fabio was off tap‚ and Les knew it. And when you get Sydney′s deadliest killer to do the hit‚ there′s always a quid pro quo. So Les is off" Robert G Barrett Yea I reckon Les would love to do a couple of rounds tap dancing on this guy............ “Arranging the hit on Fabio was off tap‚ and Les knew it. And when you get Sydney′s deadliest killer to do the hit‚ there′s always a quid pro quo. So Les is off” Robert G Barrett

Yea I reckon Les would love to do a couple of rounds tap dancing on this guy…………

]]> By: Glenn Campbell http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46029 Glenn Campbell Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:52:57 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46029 I ;ike it .......but I have to feel sorry for his wife! I ;ike it …….but I have to feel sorry for his wife!

]]> By: photohumourist http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46027 photohumourist Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:31:09 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46027 The shadow makes him look like a hunchback. Lots to look at here. The shadow makes him look like a hunchback. Lots to look at here.

]]> By: abele http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46026 abele Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:52:49 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46026 John "im kind of glad that no one seems to have spotted his camera yet. Kinda the point in a way." even if a strange camera's shadow could have been quite interesting... John

“im kind of glad that no one seems to have spotted his camera yet. Kinda the point in a way.”

even if a strange camera’s shadow could have been quite interesting…

]]> By: Jerome C. http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46023 Jerome C. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:27:04 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46023 nice, very nice. I also still remember the other picture from you published here. nice, very nice. I also still remember the other picture from you published here.

]]> By: panos skoulidas http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46022 panos skoulidas Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:20:58 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46022 Mr.Gladdy..:) u should direct a movie....... Mr.Gladdy..:) u should direct a movie…….

]]> By: peter grant http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46017 peter grant Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:10:59 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46017 I've also had a look at your web site and agree with others that you have a great feel for getting the essence of somebody visually. Rock on I’ve also had a look at your web site and agree with others that you have a great feel for getting the essence of somebody visually. Rock on

]]> By: dellicson http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46015 dellicson Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:50:36 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46015 It's nice to see a scanned print! It’s nice to see a scanned print!

]]> By: bobblack http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46012 bobblack Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:47:46 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46012 John! :))) god-damned, i love this portrait...but not for the usual photographic bullshit... i love the absolute physicality and sensuality of this 'green' wall: where Walker's shadow meets the shadow of light, and right before it bows, the welt of the wall: like some kind of hallucinagenic breathing: the bow of the wall, the curl of the light, the arch of the body, somehow moves my eye toward movement.... and of course this mad constellation between the smoke and the bend of his shadow (like a character from Beckett) and the real him...and the distant light-London....this collision between the 'him' of the shadow on the wall and the 'he' of the real....as if from a Tom Waits' song.... and these magnificent long, as if fingers, as if wire, as if steel-tongues shredding flesh, long long horizontal pitch of the picture..... the bow of his back, Quasimoto, against the cool-hep cat refracted by toomuchjazzpunkcoolnastyshite sound and then the loss.... just a great photograph-portait... fuck the rest... and then there's this: no fucking idea why....but, this pic beckons this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6CDa-z1MUY&feature=related hugs bob and then John! :)))

god-damned, i love this portrait…but not for the usual photographic bullshit…

i love the absolute physicality and sensuality of this ‘green’ wall: where Walker’s shadow meets the shadow of light, and right before it bows, the welt of the wall: like some kind of hallucinagenic breathing:

the bow of the wall, the curl of the light, the arch of the body, somehow moves my eye toward movement….

and of course this mad constellation between the smoke and the bend of his shadow (like a character from Beckett) and the real him…and the distant light-London….this collision between the ‘him’ of the shadow on the wall and the ‘he’ of the real….as if from a Tom Waits’ song….

and these magnificent long, as if fingers, as if wire, as if steel-tongues shredding flesh, long long horizontal pitch of the picture…..

the bow of his back, Quasimoto, against the cool-hep cat refracted by toomuchjazzpunkcoolnastyshite sound and then the loss….

just a great photograph-portait…

fuck the rest…

and then there’s this:

no fucking idea why….but, this pic beckons this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6CDa-z1MUY&feature=related

hugs
bob

and then

]]> By: Carrie Roseman http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46010 Carrie Roseman Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:40:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46010 Wonderful! Wonderful!

]]> By: Haik http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46008 Haik Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:16:21 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46008 Wonderful, John !!! A play of interesting light. Wonderful, John !!! A play of interesting light.

]]> By: john gladdy http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46006 john gladdy Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:21:28 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46006 im kind of glad that no one seems to have spotted his camera yet. Kinda the point in a way. im kind of glad that no one seems to have spotted his camera yet. Kinda the point in a way.

]]> By: James Chance http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-46000 James Chance Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:48:14 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-46000 Like that John Gladdy. Like that!! Like that John Gladdy. Like that!!

]]> By: pomara http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-45999 pomara Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:43:08 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-45999 The light will always tell you what to do if you listen. Nice work John. The light will always tell you what to do if you listen. Nice work John.

]]> By: abele http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-45998 abele Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:00:08 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-45998 a very good portrait of a very good photographer. Congrats to both of you! a very good portrait of a very good photographer. Congrats to both of you!

]]> By: Brian Frank http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-45995 Brian Frank Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:40:55 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-45995 Love the layers in this one—the shadow on the wall, the smoke, the shadowy man, the hat, the sunlight from behind. Really nice. Love the layers in this one—the shadow on the wall, the smoke, the shadowy man, the hat, the sunlight from behind. Really nice.

]]> By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-45993 Patricia Lay-Dorsey Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:32:53 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-45993 Spectacular photo, John. Everything works--the light, the mood, the swirls of smoke, his strange sharp-nosed shadow, the diagonal lines drawing your eye back to Mr. Walker, his body language, the surprising perspective, a hint of the city out the window, the golden tones, the minimalist color palette. God, I LOVE this!!! Patricia Spectacular photo, John. Everything works–the light, the mood, the swirls of smoke, his strange sharp-nosed shadow, the diagonal lines drawing your eye back to Mr. Walker, his body language, the surprising perspective, a hint of the city out the window, the golden tones, the minimalist color palette. God, I LOVE this!!!

Patricia

]]> By: Mike R http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2009/07/mr-walker-by-john-gladdy/comment-page-1/#comment-45992 Mike R Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:52:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=3714#comment-45992 Nice one John, reminds me of Cubism. Good colour and would look good in B+W. Mr Walker takes a mean portrait too! Good light, Mike. Nice one John, reminds me of Cubism. Good colour and would look good in B+W.

Mr Walker takes a mean portrait too!

Good light,

Mike.

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