Tom Baril :: Polaroid Type 55 Works

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 12 April 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Tom Baril was born in Connecticut, attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and spent over 15 years working as a printer for Robert Mapplethorpe. After his tenure with Mapplethorpe, Baril went out on his own becoming best known for his still life table shots of flowers and fruits across a range of mediums from collodion to Polaroid Type 55 to silver gelatin. In this video, I want to talk about his first, self-titled monograph which concentraits mainly on Baril's work with Polaroid Type 55. In this body of work, Baril shows a range of techniques including solarization and pinhole. His printing skills are exceptional as well. Most of these images display a beautiful sepia as the result of tea toning. Books: Tom Baril - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0965745007/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0965745007&linkCode=as2&tag=thepublbroa-20&linkId=5C4WLOPDQ7M2KEIS Botanica - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/189204126X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=189204126X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepublbroa-20&linkId=CJV2YEYUFLVYPW6M Official Site: http://tombaril.net Koch Gallery http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/baril/ Winston Wächter Fine Art http://seattle.winstonwachter.com/artist/baril-tom/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Ted Forbes. Welcome back to the art of photography. In this video we're going to look at the work of Tom Burrell.
0:05.0	And I think Tom more than anyone else in the world of photography has had the most influence on me personally.
0:11.0	The first time I saw his work I was really blown away and
0:13.3	really drawn to the fact that Tom approaches photography not only as a
0:18.1	photographer and is somebody who's making compositions and working in camera but
0:22.2	also in the craft that goes into his work
0:24.6	and the printing techniques that he uses.
0:26.3	And Tom was at the forefront of the revival
0:29.1	in the late 90s that was going on
0:30.6	with a lot of the popularity
0:31.8	or resurgence of alternative
0:33.1	process photography and he was working in Collodion, did this beautiful series of
0:37.2	work at the Bethlehem Steel Mill in Pennsylvania, and he's worked in
0:41.4	photographere and he does some amazing outstanding stuff and he's worked in photographier and he does some amazing outstanding stuff and he's really inspirational to me from those two fronts.
0:47.0	The simplicity with composition and this beauty of what he's capturing mostly with still lifes or outdoor architectural types of things, but bringing that
0:54.8	with this sense of craft into actually having this huge range of what he does with printmaking
1:00.2	is just stunning and that's what I want to look at today.
1:02.6	So without further ado, we're going to go over and check out the first book that he did,
1:06.9	which is just called Tom Burrell, which was for a long time my holy grail book.
1:10.4	And I finally found a copy of it a couple years ago and it's still one of my favorites to this day.
1:14.0	Tom was born in Connecticut, went to the School of Visual Arts in New York and spent years as Robert
1:19.2	Maplthorps printer and the two have a similarity in that they both shoot flowers as a subject quite often,
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