Comments on: Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof http://www.rachelhulin.com/blog/2009/09/robert-burleys-photographic-proof.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:20:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof installation | Doobybrain.com http://www.rachelhulin.com/blog/2009/09/robert-burleys-photographic-proof.html/comment-page-1#comment-2411 Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof installation | Doobybrain.com Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:28:33 +0000 http://www.rachelhulin.com/blog/?p=1391#comment-2411 [...] Photographer Robert Burley has created an amazing 66′x18′ photo piece that is currently on display on the facade of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, Canada. [via] [...] [...] Photographer Robert Burley has created an amazing 66′x18′ photo piece that is currently on display on the facade of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, Canada. [via] [...]

]]> By: Robert Wright http://www.rachelhulin.com/blog/2009/09/robert-burleys-photographic-proof.html/comment-page-1#comment-2410 Robert Wright Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:11:44 +0000 http://www.rachelhulin.com/blog/?p=1391#comment-2410 "Bob" Burley was one of the first photogs I assisted back in toronto in the 90's. He was shooting architecture, he learned with Hedrich Blessing in Chicago. Bob is great. We would meet early before jobs at a diner on Carlaw street in T.O. that had these little booths for what people used to be sized as in the 40's, and have bacon and eggs and homefries and then go out and shoot buildings. He let me set up the camera. Which was a lot considering what I didn't know. Eventually I moved up to loading sheet film. We had one job to shoot a new skyscraper in downtown Toronto so he scouted it and determined that the idea location was the rooftop of the nearby 40 story office tower. ... so up we go and we are on the roof, and Bob sticks the tripod about a foot from the edge of the building and has me tie it off with this huge rope to the rails for the widow washer crane. Then he gets under the cloth for what must have been a 90mm upside down vertigo event. We also did midnight office interiors where I was tasked with gelling all the fluorescents and taking the personal shit off the desks and cubicles and sweeping the carpet nap all in the same direction. At 3am with no AC. You get a little foggy. He said he never could square how people made money shooting architecture because you had to wait around for light and weather and you could not bill as many days as it took. Bob also did a great book about the Olmstead parks, with Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James for CCA. I haven't stayed in touch with him but I remember him as someone who gave me a chance when I was less useful than a rubber doorstop. “Bob” Burley was one of the first photogs I assisted back in toronto in the 90’s. He was shooting architecture, he learned with Hedrich Blessing in Chicago. Bob is great. We would meet early before jobs at a diner on Carlaw street in T.O. that had these little booths for what people used to be sized as in the 40’s, and have bacon and eggs and homefries and then go out and shoot buildings. He let me set up the camera. Which was a lot considering what I didn’t know. Eventually I moved up to loading sheet film.

We had one job to shoot a new skyscraper in downtown Toronto so he scouted it and determined that the idea location was the rooftop of the nearby 40 story office tower. … so up we go and we are on the roof, and Bob sticks the tripod about a foot from the edge of the building and has me tie it off with this huge rope to the rails for the widow washer crane. Then he gets under the cloth for what must have been a 90mm upside down vertigo event.

We also did midnight office interiors where I was tasked with gelling all the fluorescents and taking the personal shit off the desks and cubicles and sweeping the carpet nap all in the same direction. At 3am with no AC. You get a little foggy.

He said he never could square how people made money shooting architecture because you had to wait around for light and weather and you could not bill as many days as it took.

Bob also did a great book about the Olmstead parks, with Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James for CCA.

I haven’t stayed in touch with him but I remember him as someone who gave me a chance when I was less useful than a rubber doorstop.

]]> By: Daniel Marchand http://www.rachelhulin.com/blog/2009/09/robert-burleys-photographic-proof.html/comment-page-1#comment-2408 Daniel Marchand Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:07:29 +0000 http://www.rachelhulin.com/blog/?p=1391#comment-2408 Thank you Rachel and Philippe for spreading this. I will be sure to have a look on my next trip to Montreal. Thank you Rachel and Philippe for spreading this. I will be sure to have a look on my next trip to Montreal.

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