The curators of a new retrospective celebrating the work of David Hurles joined us to talk about the photographer's love of rough trade.
Last month, a long-overdue survey of the work of David Hurles, better known as Old Reliable, opened at MASS Gallery in Austin, Texas, the first such exhibition since John Waters presented the photographer’s work in New York City 15 years ago. As comprehensive as it is sexy,includes everything from mug shots and old driver’s licenses to video installations and debt records. Of course, there are dicks too, of every size and color, immortalized by Hurles’ wobbly camera.
OTTENBERG: They’re such great photographs of such exciting men. What are the years that he’s really killing it? Mid-’70s to very early ’80s, is that his prime time? HANSON: The video was a good source of income for him, but it also required a lot more of the models. I would say he spent the same amount of time on video as photos, but it was less important to him personally because, after the stroke, he was willing to sell off his video, but didn’t really want to sell off any of his photographs or his tapes until his death.
HANSON: Yeah. After he went to the nursing home and we really didn’t have money to pay for the storage unit, John Waters stepped in and arranged a show for him at his gallery in New York. And we made, I don’t know, $12,500 something, selling stuff to take care of him. But when we were preparing for that show, I brought in his catalogs so that he could point out pictures he really liked and models he really liked. Mongoose, on the cover ofHANSON: He really liked that Mongoose picture.
OTTENBERG: This one is another absolute favorite and it connects with what you’re saying, because the meth face in this picture is so hardcore. HANSON: Eddie Perez, I found his collected arrest records and David was always bailing him out. It would always just be bullshit things they’d take him in for. Eddie Perez was 5’4”. Eddie Perez was also Bob Mizer’s most frequent sex partner. And yet again, he was straight, supposedly.
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