John Dugdale (photographer)

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John Dugdale (* 1960 in Connecticut ) is an American photo artist .

life and work

Dugdale took an interest in photography at the age of twelve after receiving a first camera from his mother. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City , where he studied photography and art history . In 1983 Christian Michelides presented his photographic work for the first time in Vienna, in a solo exhibition and a catalog. Back in New York, Dugdale had a successful decade-long career as a fashion and advertising photographer , working for Bergdorf Goodman , Martha Stewart and Ralph Lauren , among others .

In 1993, at the age of 33, Dugdale went almost completely blind from a stroke and CMV infection . The cause was an HIV infection. The right eye became completely blind, the left eye remained at twenty percent. This ended Dugdale's commercial career abruptly. However, he refused to give up photography and began studying old 19th century techniques. With the help of friends and family members who assisted him, he began to work with historical large format cameras , learned cyanotype and platinum printing , and worked on albumin paper , which had contributed to the rapid spread of photography in the second half of the 19th century. His particular sensitivity in dealing with classical technology underlined the poetry of his current work and the transcendence of time and place in his work. A quote from the almost blind photographer: “The soul is the seat of all seeing. Basically it is the soul that sees. "

Dugdale has shown his work in more than 25 solo exhibitions worldwide. One of his better-known exhibitions in 1995 was entitled: Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall , in German: Lengthening Shadows Before Sunset . His work has been shown in group shows at the Miami Art Museum , the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield. His photographs are represented in well-known collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . The artist was accepted into the Royal Photographic Society in Bath and spoke on the BBC , National Public Radio , at various universities, as well as at public and private events about his work, his handling of 19th century techniques and his aesthetic conception - and repeatedly answers the question of what it means to "see".

Voices

"Dugdale is continuously working the beautiful surface of its deeper concerns - spirituality, death, interior design - which is why its refined New Victorian sensibility and exquisite prints can be quite seductive."

- Vince Aletti : Village Voice - about Dugdale's 1993 New York exhibition

proof

  1. ↑ Alison Young: "Into the Blue". The Image Written on Law . In: Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities , Vol. 13 (2013), Issue 1, p. 18, ISSN  1041-6374
  2. ↑ mutualart.com , accessed on January 3, 2015

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SURNAME Dugdale, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Connecticut