Walker was before his time in digital photography
How tough would it have been to be a digital photographer ten years ago? How about before Adobe released Photoshop 1.0? Todd Walker knew.
Todd Walker began exploring digital photography in 1981 and never look back.
Born in 1917 in Salt Lake City, he grew up in Los Angeles, where he established himself as a commercial photographer in the 1940s. In the 1960s, he delved into alternative photographic methods, such as solarization, inventing his own visual language.
In 1966, he began teaching photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, and, around that time, he started exhibiting extensively, including dozens of solo exhibitions nationwide. In 1970, he gave up his commercial studio and focused exclusively on his fine-art imagery.
Because digital photography has become so ubiquitous and sophisticated, it is important to realize that Walker began his work in the digital realm nine years before Adobe shipped its first copies of Photoshop 1.0, a revolutionary software program that transformed the field.
According to his daughter, Walker never used Photoshop. Instead, he wrote his own computer programs and later made use of QFX freeware and POV, or Persistence of Vision, software primarily designed for cartography.
The dude programmed his own photo-editing software… wow.
Walker recently passed away, but his daughter is helping his legacy live on with a new exhibit entitled “Critical Encounters”, which consists of 30 groundbreaking digital images from Walker.
Here’s more information about the Close Enounters, a look journal through the evolution of digital photography.
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