Bull Durham
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Bull Durham
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Final Image.
Description
An old advertising sign found on the side of a building in Salina, Kansas. The building next to the wall was torn down to make a parking lot. I was called out to photograph the wall advertisements and did so with a 4x5 view camera. I re-photographed it recently for this upload.
The painters were a rugged, resourceful lot with a dedication to the craft bordering on monomania. They painted signs on walls, great and small, and they worked like dogs. So they were called wall dogs. As a group they embodied an eclectic mix of skills often associated with the draftsman, the chemist, the artist and even the acrobat.
In the first half of the 20th century wall dogs were legion. Probably the majority were employed by the major sign companies of the day - General Outdoor Advertising Co., the Thomas Cusack Co., the P.H. Morton Co., and the O. J. Gude Co. One contingent worked the brick-walled cities, while another ranged the countryside in search of virgin barns and prime walls in small towns.
Bull Durham wall murals are known for their strategically painted "modesty" fences that block the public's view of the bull's private parts.
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Image copyright 2015 Jon Burch Photography
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January 23rd, 2015
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