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John Dugdale: A Man of Vision

Diana H. Bloomfield

Imagine that you are a young, successful commercial photographer at the height of your career, living and working in one of the most visual and vibrant cities in the world. You become ill, suffer a debilitating stroke, and survive a life-threatening illness. With help from family, friends, and the medical community, you slowly recover, but lose your eyesight and the career that depend on it. What will you do?

This is John Dugdale’s story, and he chose to move forward.

Dugdale, now 60 years old, has been blind for nearly half his life from complications related to HIV. After a lengthy rehabilitation period following his illness, his next-door neighbor and close friend, Judy Seigel, an influential practitioner of 19th-century photographic printing processes, showed him how to make cyanotypes. Initially, the lure of cyanotype was its relative ease and non-toxic nature. The color blue, as natural as the sea and sky, symbolizes peace and tranquility. Fittingly, Dugdale views his own life as “a beautiful and unexpect

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John Dugdale Biography

John Dugdale’s photography, as well as his lifestyle, reflects his penchant for antiquity and relationships. He lives and works at Bethany Farm, an authentically restored 18th century farmhouse in upstate New York. Both his photographic equipment (he uses an old 8 x 10″ view camera) and his printing techniques (cyanotype and platinum) date from 1840 and were widely used till the turn of the century and stem from his deep admiration for the earliest of the 19th century photographers. His images; still lifes, portraits, nudes, and landscapes are deceptively simple. They are also intimate glimpses of private moments and personal spaces. There is a tranquil and timeless quality to his work.

The cyanotype process uses iron compounds as its light sensitive material. The emulsion is applied by brush to hand-made watercolor paper, and the resulting print is blue in tone. John Dugdale’s cyanotypes are rich and saturated; they are a brilliant Prussian blue. Combining with these images a hand made picture frame wit

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John Dugdale (photographer)

American art photographer

John Dugdale (born 1960 in Connecticut) is an American art photographer.

Early life and career

Dugdale's interest in photography started at the age of twelve with his first camera, which was a present from his mother. He attended the School of the Visual Arts in New York City where he majored in photography and art history. In 1983 his photographic work was first presented in a solo exhibition at Vienna's Molotov Art Gallery. The show and the catalogue were curated by Christian Michelides, the founder of the gallery. Thereafter he started a successful decade long commercial career working for such clients as Bergdorf Goodman, Martha Stewart, and Ralph Lauren.

Blindness

In 1993, at age 33, Dugdale became nearly total blind due to a stroke and CMV retinitis, an HIV-related illness. He became completely blind in his right eye and lost eighty percent visibility in his left eye. In 2010 he lost his remaining vision.

Blindness ended his successful commercial photography career, but he decided to per