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"Todd Walker lives a hermetic existance somewhere in the deserts of the great American Southwest. Even more impressive than Walker's ability to tell one color from another and his deep love of "funny" hard to work with colors is his ability to read an instruction manual and know what the heck the writer was trying to say. And then improve the process. Like the time he reinvented dye transfer when Kodak dropped out. Not to mention gum, kallitype, collotype etc. His letter press and offset books, hand bound, are legendary among the cognoscenti of the artist's book world." -- Robert Fichter
Todd Walker: America's Most Astute Color Photographer
"Through two careers spanning almost five decades, Todd Walker has maintained a youthfulness in his approach to the photographic medium that remains evident in his work today. In the 1950s, it was Walker who helped revitalize the automotive advertising industry with his innovative and romantic photographs of cars in natural environments. In the 1960s, it was Walker who laid the groundwork for the resurgence of non-silver processes. And today, it is Todd Walker who, through a further expansion of a repertoire that now includes the technologically advanced processes of the computer age, continues to be a vital force in the maturation of the photographic arts."
-- Julia K. Nelson, from her introduction to Todd Walker Photographs, published by The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California, 1985.
- An interview with Todd Walker / Thomas F. Morrissey, Tempe: Arizona State University: Art Department, 1978.
- Untitled, 1986. Photolithograph by Todd Walker from
Polaroid Positive/Negative 4X5 film, Type 55. This image is part of The International Polaroid Collection, an archive of more than 22,000 photographs housed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, France and Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Arizona Cactus "An excellent demonstration of the evolution of Walker's use of solarization and posterization." This image is from Robert Fichter's webpage.
- California Photographer at Work A humorous image by Todd Walker, of which Robert Fichter says: "This is a previously unpublished image of Ansel Adams at work. At least that's who it appears to be from the hat."
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BIGgallery.com Here's an online source for purchase of two prints by Todd Walker. They are: CALIFORNIA ST. S.F. 1964, 40" x 28", and CALIFORNIA STREET, 10" x 12".
- Summer Vacation: On the Road with Artists This exhibition at the Arvada Center Gallery, Arvada, CO, featured artwork by Eldon "E.C." Cunningham, James McElhinney, Virginia Maitland, Don Stinson, Gary Sweeney and Todd Walker. This webpage about the exhibition has a small reproduction of a photograph by Todd Walker which was originally made for a Chevrolet advertisement.
- Translations: Photographic Images With New Forms
[PHOTO/PRINT] Bowman, Stanley J., introduction. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1979. First ed. Oblong 4to., (6) pp., plus 26 b&w and color photos, (4) pp. checklist. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Owners' neat stamp, slight wrinkling, otherwise very good. Barbara Astman, Thomas F. Barrow, Vera Berdich, Ruth Breil, Eileen Cowin, John Craig, Robert W. Fichter, Betty Hahn, Scott Hyde, Robert Heinecken, Ellen Land-Weber, Joan Lyons, Bea Nettles, Henry Holmes Smith, Arthur Taussig, Todd Walker, and others. $30.00
- Attitudes: Photography in the 1970’S "171. [EXHIBITION] Parker, Fred R., project director. ATTITUDES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 1970’S. (Santa Barbara): Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1979. First ed. 4to., over 80 pages, numerous b&w photo-images, various prints, page of 20 color slides. Illustrated spiral bound stiff wrappers. Near fine. Catalogue for this major exhibition of 485 works by a who’s who of contemporary photography, and limited to 1000 numbered copies, SIGNED by Parker. Includes a full-page b&w duotone print by Don Worth, color image (photo/painting) by Karen Truax (signed), tipped-in b&w image by Robert Heinecken printed on magazine ad, photo-mechanical color print by Keith Smith (signed), color offset litho by Todd Walker (signed), print by Alex Sweetman (signed and numbered on rear). $300.00
- Course Syllabi, Art History 3621-001: 20th Century Photo Images The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Instructor: James Hugunin. Topic: MANIPULATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY. Silver and non-silver processes, "post-visualization." Jerry Uelsmann, Val Telberg, Bart Parker, Henry Holmes Smith, Robert Rauschenberg, Edmund Teske, Robert Heinecken, Robert Fichter, Todd Walker, Gray Crawford, Stephen Berens.
- HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY between 1920 and 1945 "Todd Walker (b. 1917) [H] source H: (no reproductions for some photographers), Contemporary Photographers , edited by George Walsh, Colin Naylor and Michael Held, St. Martin's Press (Macmillan Press), 1982, ISBN 0-312-16791-1".
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Alternative Photographic Processes
- Fred Foster's Formula Ferric Oxalate
This is a 15 Feb 1997 posting by Keith Schreiber from the Alt-Photo-Process Archive:
"Hi all, By strange coincidence, about a month ago my professor from a few years back, Todd Walker, called to say that someone had sent him a sample of some supposedly magical ferric oxalate to try, but since he is no longer doing chemical photography he thought I might like to try it. So I finally went to visit him this afternoon and indeed it turns out to be the famous "Fred's Formula Ferric Oxalate" which had been sent to him by Curt Richter. I'll try it out soon and report back. In the mean time, I am wondering if there are any other former students of Todd's on the list. He is doing some beautiful digital work mostly using software I had not heard of before such as QFX, HeightLine, and Perceptions of Vision (or something like that). Do any of you know of these? --Keith
(Note from JF: I think it was called "Persistance of Vision" and was something he'd downloaded off the internet.) - Re: Imaging This posting to an "altphoto" discussion group by Judy Seigel mentions Todd's "cactus composites".
- The PhotoForum List's List of Photo Web sites This link list by Andrew Davidhazy is a good place to start surfing for photographic information & imagery.
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The Alternative Photographic Process FAQ This is a compendium of information on alternative photographic processes, and includes tips on how to safely work with the various chemicals used in the processes. This excellent resource is maintained by Gordon J. Holtslander.
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Alt-Photo-Process Archive by subject Archives for an online discussion group of alternative photographic processes. The mailing list and archives are maintained by Gregory Walker .
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