Illustrated Biography of Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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Infrared flash photo – Times Square, NYC (Candid)

Selection from Pointers artist’s book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

NOTE 1….When the theme of this blog was changed to a zine format the spacing and layout of the photos changed from the original design. I don’t have the time to go back and fix thousands of photos in hundreds of posts…but I’m sure you will still get the message.

NOTE 2….If a photo looks fuzzy, try to click on it to see if there is a hi-res version. Sometimes my photos are reproduced poorly here.  

NOTE 3….Due to the size of this bio, it can no longer be easily updated nor is it anywhere near  complete. It is just a very small snapshot of my work. If you want to see what I’m currently doing take a look at a few of my websites:

https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/blog-directory/

Daniel D. Teoli Jr. 2014

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Date of Birth: December 1954 at Los Angeles, California

Education: B.A. California State University Los Angeles, California

I am a self-taught social documentary photographer, experimental filmmaker, curator, historian, and audio archivist with 51 years experience.  With respect to my photography, I produce highest level candid photography as well as being the world leader in circular fisheye and infrared flash street photography. I also specialize in producing limited edition artist’s books.

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Fashion Shoot on Wall Street (Candid)

Selection from The Americans…60 years after Frank artist’s book by Daniel D.Teoli Jr.


I started taking pictures in the mid-1960’s with the family Brownie and took up photography more seriously in 1969 learning about the ins & outs of darkroom work in my mothers bathroom and then kitchen. Throughout the 1970’s & 1980’s I worked to document the people and street life in Los Angeles and Hollywood, CA.

Nitrogen Burst Processing Calumet Catalog 1975 D.D. Teoli Jr. A.C. (11)

A nitrogen burst processor

I have experience in many areas of the wet darkroom, both in black and white and color. These include,  alternative processes, E-6, C-41, nitrogen burst processing, Type ‘C’ & Type ‘R’ printing, dye transfer printing, screen printing, process camera / halftone screening and plate burning.dye-transfer-print-fade-test-after-6-months-of-sun-daniel-d-teoli-jr-mr

Eastman Kodak Dye Transfer Print Fade Test

Selection from Dye Stability Testing of Color Imaging Media – Edition II artist’s book by Daniel D.Teoli Jr.

Another facet of my work is in archival research and historical preservation. I do extensive archival testing as it pertains to dye stability of color imaging media and archival qualities of photography and cine’ related materials. I have also expanded my testing to include digital media that is commonly used for archiving photographs.

Within the area of historical preservation, the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection, which I am curator of, has a scope of over 140 areas of collection. I was an early adopter of digital collecting which makes up about 15% – 20% of the Archive.

I also work as a part-time volunteer archivist for the Internet Archive. Here are some of the items I’ve donated to the Internet Archive over the years.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=dteoli%20

Edit 1: Link is dead. After 5-1/2 years of working as a volunteer archivist for the Internet Archive they closed my account and deleted all my content which were +/- 130,000 individual items that were part of 1,666 collection uploads. 

Edit 1a: A month after I posted Edit 1, the Internet Archive reinstated most of my Archive. I’m leaving up Edit 1 and Edit 1a as part of my history with online censorship. The I.A. could easily delete my whole Archive again in a blink of an eye. 

Here is new link after my Archive was reinstated at the I.A.. It covers only part of the Archive.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=teoli

Here are a few samples from the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection…

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Here is a partial listing of scope for the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection:

Early Photography: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Opalotypes, Tintypes, Cyanotypes, Glass Plates, Autochromes, Gum Bichromate, Platinum, Palladium, Bromoil, & Salt Prints.
C.D.V. & Cabinet Cards
Fashion, Portrait & Vernacular Photographs from the 19th Century
Early Japanese 19th Century Albumen Photographs & Glass Plates
Early 20th Century Rodeo Photographs
Vintage Ballerinas & Dancers
Historical Collotype, Woodburytype, Phtotogravure & Halftone Plates
Pre-Jazz Era – WW I
Roaring 20’s – Flappers
1930’s – Depression Era
1940’s – WW II
Eiffel Tower
Bobbysoxers
Vintage Schools, Classrooms & Students
Vintage Dye Transfer Prints
Steel Pier Diving Horses
Girls with Cameras
1950’s – Extensive Beat Generation Archives
1960’s – Hippies
Vintage Kodachrome Slides
Fashion 1845 – 1980: Dresses, Hats, Ribbons, Bows, Bonnets, Buttons & Shoes
Victorian & Edwardian Husband & Wife Portraits
19th Century Children
Extensive Collection of 19th & Early 20th Century Wedding Dresses
Mid 20th Century Satin & Lace Wedding Dresses
Tea Length Wedding Dresses
Vintage Wedding Parties
Vintage Bridal Bouquets & Nosegays
Vintage Bridal Headpieces
Magic Lantern Slides
Vintage Boxing Ladies
Artists & Art Studios
Mutilated Photos – Faces Cut Out
Vintage Trailers
Breastfeeding
Majorettes
Vintage Radio, Hi-Fi, Reel to Reel, Television, HAM and Vacuum Tube Photos & Ephemera
QSL Postcard Archive / QSL Risqué Postcards
Historical Audio Recordings
Acetate Records
Airchecks Radio Transcriptions
Phil Schaap Jazz Aircheck Archive
Reel to Reel & Cassette Tapes
Living Letters
Radio Station Photos and Ephemera
Early Beachwear
Fredericks of Hollywood Archive
Sami Laplanders Archive
Women’s Hairstyles 1840 – 1980
Hair Curlers
Christmas – Santa Claus – Snowmen
Vintage New York City
Before Photoshop – Retouched Photos
Of Historical Interest
Macabre
Yawning
Vintage Eyeglasses
Vintage African Postcards
Vintage Middle East Postcards
Newsworthy
Vintage Press Photos
Politics
Nixon Archive
JFK Archive
McCarthy Era
Vintage Football
Press Photographers – Press Cameras
Roadside Americana – Dinosaur Statues
Stereo Photography
Painted Press Photos
Gender Studies
Vintage Nudes
Upskirts
Vintage Pornography
Sexual Deviants
Early Bondage, BDSM Photos and Ephemera
Crossdressers
Homosexual Erotica
Vintage Explicit Personal Correspondence
8mm and 16mm Vintage Pornography 1920 – 1970
16mm Adult Film Trailers
Vintage Homosexual & Heterosexual Cartoon Photos
Vintage 16mm Kodachrome Home Movies 1938 – 1960
Historical 16mm Films 1920 – 1960
Vintage Train Films
Educational Films & School Daily Life
Circus Films
Underground Films
Art Films – ‘Art Student’ Figure Films
Silent Films / Silent Films with later added comic narration
Cine Arts Films
Small Gauge Reel and Film Can Archive
Film Rental Catalogs
Vintage 1970’s VHS Pornography Videotapes
1970’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS
Vintage Erotic Cartoons
Early #800, #900 & ‘.com’ Sex Ads on VHS
Early Homosexual VHS Sex Ads
Japanese 1980’s VHS Pornography Videotapes
Japanese 1980’s Adult Film Trailers on VHS
Political Comix
Vintage Medical Photos
Sleepers
RPPC’s
Propaganda
Outcasts
Underground Social Documentary Photography
Vernacular Snapshot Aesthetics
Vintage Circus
Vintage Night Photography
Whimsical
19th Century Fat Women
Halloween
Blackface
Historical NAACP / Racial Prejudice
Picnics
Ghost Transfer Images
Switchboard Operators
Vintage Parades
1940’s – 1960’s Swimsuits & Sportswear
Vintage Umbrellas & Parasols
19th & Early 20th Century Purses & Muffs
Weegee Archive
Vintage Rodeo
Currier & Ives Darktown Comics
Vintage Print Advertising
Stripper Groupies
See-through Negligée
Trocadero Theatre
Bettie Page Archive
Hand-Colored Photos
Maurice Seymour Archive
Irving Klaw Zine & Ephemera
Irving Klaw Negative Archive
Vintage Pinups
Eric Stanton Illustrations
Sexploitation
Vintage Birthday Parties
Donald Trump
Film Era Ephemera
Vintage Cine’ & Still Camera Ephemera
Leica Publications & Ephemera
Vintage High School & College Yearbooks
Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy Collection
Down Syndrome
Self Harm – Cuttters
Postmortem Photographs
Early Computer, Video & Cell Phone Ephemera
Black Americana – Jazz – Vintage Sheet Music
Artists’ Books
Vintage Comix – Comics
Original Comix Art & Ephemera
Mimeograph Machine Photos & Ephemera
Vintage Jazz Photos, Periodicals & Ephemera
Yodeling Dick Brooks Archive
Early Mountain, Country, Hillbilly, Western & Folk Music
WWVA Jamboree Archive
Square Dance Music, Call Sheets and Ephemera
Mimeo Revolution Press – Little Magazines – Independent Press Poetry
Counterculture & Underground Newspapers
Vintage Newspapers
Handbills
Malware / Ransomware / SPAM / Robocall Correspondence
Laserdiscs
Zines

I also curate and manage the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive and the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive. The Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive’s mission is to preserve and archive the multitude of forgotten, ignored and outcast short subject small gauge films from the 1920s – 1960s that are quietly succumbing to vinegar syndrome.

I am especially proud to have rescued Prescription for Love (see below) from the trash after it was in a hurricane in Florida.  This film is a very rare synched dialogue vintage stag film. As a rough estimate, only 1%-2% of the stag films from the 1920s to 1950s had synched dialogue. Currently the archive contains +/- 700 reels which translates into about a half-million feet of film to conserve.

Here are a few sample films from the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive:

Edit 2: YouTube deleted my video.

https://vimeo.com/252008257

Edit 3:  Vimeo deleted my video. Sad thing is, I don’t remember which video it was as I had multiple Vimeo and YouTube accounts.

Edit 4: Prescription for Love was removed by YouTube and they banned me. Here is the backup link for the film on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Prescription%20For%20Love%20D.%20D.%20Teoli%20Jr.%20A.%20C

Edit 5: The Internet Archive deleted all my content.

Edit 5a: A month later the I.A. reinstated my account.

…why don’t I remove all these dead links? It is part of my history. Why destroy history?

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The Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive contains +/- 15,000 hours of sound recordings with a specialty in unscoped vintage airchecks, obscure comedy recordings, reel to reel tapes, acetates, test pressings, yodeling, vintage country, blues, gospel, hillbilly and novelty music.

I am also proud of the +/- 200 hours of unscoped airchecks I recorded of talk radio and news during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.

Here is one example audio collection of the Old Country Record Shop from the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Old%20Country%20Record%20Shop%20Teoli

Edit 6: The Internet Archive deleted all my content.

Edit 6a: A month later the I.A. reinstated my account.

Old Country Record Shop Richard Bruce Morriale D.D.Teoli Jr. 2019

Yodeling Dick Brooks aka Richard Bruce Morriale of the Old Country Record Shop

Photo: Daniel D.Teoli Jr.

…and is hand-held in available light.

That is the hallmark of the successful documentary photographer. They produce with what they got and where they are at and in any lighting conditions.

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Well, lets get back to photography which is my main work…

Here are a few of my film shots from the early 1970’s. (Spacing and layout of photos has changed from the original biography. See Notes #1 & #2 above.)

Untitiled no.1 copyright 1971 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.  Jennifur Copyright 1974 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.mr Makes Me Grateful for My Bed Copyright 1971 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Hakenkreuz in a Dress Copyright 1973 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Crazy Copyright 1975 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Coat Hanger Copyright 1974 Daniel D. Teoli jr. mr Young Girl and Babydoll copyright 1972 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Jenny copyright 1972 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr.. On Leave copyright 1973 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr   Stripper on Rooftop copyright 1974 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Man at Park copyright 1972 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr

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Moving to the Northeast in the 1989, I continued with my interest with social documentary photography in Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. In the early 2000’s I gradually made the switch from film to digital, which I use for the majority of my work, although I still enjoy shooting swing lens and medium format film cameras.

I also like to experiment with Hyper-Real HDR color street photography if it fits the subject matter. I thankfully credit Les Krims for introducing me to that style of work.

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Lost Princess Copyright 2013 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr

In 2001 I suffered a major loss to my archives as a flood in Ohio destroyed the bulk of my photographs from the 1980’s and 1990’s. My earlier work from the 1970’s was only spared because I had already moved most of it to my new residence. This loss, as great as it was, inspired me to work diligently on archiving and preserving my photography.

Here are the few remaining images from the 1980’s that survived the flood. Some of these are scans of reject work prints, snapshots and a few misplaced negatives that were spared from the flood.

Homage to Weegee - Cigarette Caught in Mid Flight Copyright 1983 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Bangkok Taxi Copyright 1982 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Pigsheads Copyright 1983 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Santa Anita Copyright 1983 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mrmr Santa Monica Copyright 1972 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Santa Monica Copyright 1984 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Monsoon Thailand Copyright 1982 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr

http://thelostyearsdt.tumblr.com/

Edit 7: Tumblr deleted all my content.

In 2019 Tumblr deleted 48 of my websites. Just sickening how much work gets destroyed overnight from censorship. I put in 4 years making the Tumblr’s…then poof!

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Publications:

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Here are a few of my major works with book arts. My artist’s books which consist of my own photography as well as material from the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection, are placed with museums and rare book / special collection libraries worldwide.

For a complete listing of my artist’s books and projects I am working on see:

https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/artists-books-by-daniel-d-teoli-jr-2/

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Sample of selections from a few of my earlier books:

Peephole: Peering Into the World of 1970’s Hollywood and L.A – 2013

Captain of Wall Street 90014 Copyright 1974 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Getty Heir Found Copyright 1973 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr 12 img033-2-2 SPOT MR 24 'Gypsy Woman' Copyright 1973 MR

58 img196-View Print V5 MR 4 img001-Tiff v2 Print MR 10 img030pp2 JP TF SPOT Vig Print V5 Final use this MR

 Portfolio: Peering Into the World of 1970’s Hollywood and L.A. – 2013

64 Barbara LeMay Copyright 1974 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

28 img110-V10 Print MR 32 img169-2_-2_-3_-4_fused-Edit View Print-V15 MR 34 img173-Edit-2 Print V2 3880 MATTE - SG MR 52 img038-view print V3 MR 56 img525-Print V8 MR 64 mg125- V2 LTD lite vers MR 82 img100 V13 Print View MR 94 img094 V13 - Rear Cover 4.5 x 6.5 1.8 WARM 3880 centered MR 'Sunlit Slipper' Copyright 1973 Daniel D. Teoli Jr V16.

http://portfolioartistsbook.tumblr.com/

Edit 8: Tumblr deleted all my content.

 Twenty-Six Roadkills – 2013

Twenty-Six Roadkills artists' book no.1 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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Twenty-Six Roadkills artists' book no.26 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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Edit 9: Tumblr deleted all my content.

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Encyclopedia of Photographic and Fine Art Ink Jet Printing Media 2014

 Encyclopedia of Ink Jet Printing Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr 1

Encyclopedia of Ink Jet Printing Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr 2

http://encyclopediainkjetmedia.tumblr.com/

Edit 10: Tumblr deleted all my content.

The 12 volume Encyclopedia is currently the world largest contemporary set of hand-printed  artist’s books ever made. More importantly, it is a very important and unique reference collection for archival research and those interested in ink jet printing.

Sets of the Encyclopedia have been placed with:

 Rijksmuseum Research Library, Netherlands

Center for Creative Photography Research Library

Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Ohio State University

Amon Carter Museum Conservation Lab

Image Permanence Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology

Metropolitan Museum of Art Conservation Lab.

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 Bikers’ Mardi Gras – 2015

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Pole Dancer copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Bikers Mardi Gras Cover Copyright 2013 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Selection from 'Bikers' Mardi Gras' artists' book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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http://bikermardigras.tumblr.com/

Edit 11: Tumblr deleted all my content.

De Wallen: Amsterdam’s Red Light District – 2015

De Wallen copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli jr.

 9 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 7 Dam Square no. 2 Copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr 11 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr 19 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 21 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr 22 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 24 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 25 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 27 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 28 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 33 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 35 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr 30 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 46 Man Cock Ring Copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. LR. 50 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr. 49 sex tool Copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.. mr. 51 De Wallen Artists' Book Copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr.

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Edit 12: Tumblr deleted all my content.

 Gender Benders from the 1970’s

https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/genders-benders-from-the-1970s/

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Currently I am working on a number of projects that will result in limited edition artist’s books when complete. Here is a very partial listing of projects underway:

Piercing Darkness 

The Americans…60 years after Frank 

Girls of the Beat Generation

Whoop-Whoop

180: The circular fisheye at large!

A Day in the Life of a Drag Queen

Moo!

Gay Bar

Presenting Photography to Curators and Museums

Charmed

Magnifying Lens Photography

Yum!

Thirty-six views of Bison

With Due Respect Beloved One

Women are Beautiful…Beyond Snapshot Aesthetics

Secrets of Candid Photography

All you Need is Love

Pigskin Chronicles

For a complete project listing see:

https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/artists-books-by-daniel-d-teoli-jr-2/

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 Piercing Darkness

Piercing Darkness consists of infrared flash photography taken in the dark.

PD Project Daniel D. Teoli Jr. G300 mr  PD Project 2015 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr

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Homage to Mssrs Weegee & Yoshiyuki copyright 2015 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr - c

Piercing Darkness 2015 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr - C v14  PD 2015 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr - C PD 2015 Daniel D. Teoli Jr mr - Copy PD 2015 Daniel D. Teoli Jr mr - C (2)

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PD Infrared Flash 2015 Daniel D. Teoli Jr mr - C

 Whoop-Whoop!

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Edit 13: Tumblr deleted all my content.

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 180: The circular fisheye at large!

Crypt St. Michan's copyright 2015 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr LAS Busker Daniel D. teoli Jr. thin border mr LAS copyright Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr       Reinbeau copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Bikers Mardi Gras no. 88 copyright 2014 Daniel d. Teoli Jr. mr Freemont Street 1 copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Freemont Street No. 2 copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. 36Whoop-Whoop 123 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr (7) Hen Party Amsterdam Copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. De Wallen no.210 Copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Washington Momument copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Lincoln Memorial Copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr L1004327_V7 lr St. Martin 56 copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr Plane Worshipers copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. St. Martin 11 copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr St. Martin 76 copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr. mr L1004397-V4 lr

Order Women Like Pizza Copyright 2014 Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Order Women Like Pizza (Candid)

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In addition to still photography I also work in experimental filmmaking. I’ve stopped counting the number of films I’ve produced, but I made close to 100 films in 2019 alone.

Here is a partial listing of some of the ‘Instagram’ series of films I’ve made:

Girls of Instagram

Look at #metoo (aka ‘Look at hashtag metoo’ on the Internet Archive)

Look at #metoo (Short Version)

Stretch Marks

Stretch Marks (Short Version)

Acne

Acne (Short Version)

Jew Majesty

Pregnant Girls of Instagram

Fat Ass

#Queer (aka ‘hashtag Queer’ on the Internet Archive)

Chubblebath

Mandy Blanco Dream Girl

Transition (Male to female transition)

Transmen (Female to male transition)

Color Hair

Fingernails

Tongue Fetish

Split Tongue

Split Tongue (Short Version)

Scarification

Drag Queens

Twerking

Tattooed Lesbians

Justin Day

Hairy Girls

Afra

Genderqueer

Genderqueer 2.5X

Disciples of Androgyne

Offshoots

The Prelims

The Non-Conformists

Here are 3 example films from this group on the subject of  social documentary studies from Instagram. (These are all short versions of the film.)

While the films looks like casual views of Instagram, they are not. Over 10,000 posts were curated, organized and edited to make my Genderqueer film alone. Each film requires thousands of posts to curate and organize.

Edit 14: Sorry, links to video are dead. Vimeo deleted my videos. I had back-up links to all the videos on the Internet Archive, but they also deleted them. 

Split Tongue

https://vimeo.com/337301338

Look at #metoo

https://vimeo.com/336094779

Transmen (Part 4 of Genderqueer…a 65 min social documentary on the gender busting revolution)

…just in case – a the backup link at the Internet Archive for Transmen if YT removes it.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=transmen%20short%20version%20teoli

Edit 15: Internet Archive deleted all my content.

Edit 15a: A month later the I.A. reinstated my account.

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A few of my favorite photographers…

Lisette Model, Robert Frank, Mary Ellen Mark, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michel Chelbin, Les Krims, Maggie Steber, Don McCullin, Salgado, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, Gail Halaban,  Cristina Garcia Rodero, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bruce Davidson, Robert Doisineau, Jane Evelyn Atwood, W. Eugene Smith, Martin Munkasci, Larry Fink, O. Rufus Lovett, Weegee, Robert Capa, Judy Dater, Ray Metzger, Erich Salomon, Harry K. Shigeta, Emmet Gowin, Jill Freeman, James Nanchez, Helen Levitte, Shelby Lee Adams, Brassai, O.Winston Link, Sid Grossman, Graciela Iturbide and William Mortensen.

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Selection from The Americans…60 years after Frank (Candid)

by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Artist’s statement:

      I’m not much for artist’s statements. I feel the photo should be able to stand on its own and not need a chapter of esoteric bullshit to justify it. Neither am I one to write or hire authors to write long justifications and explanation for my books. My photo illustrated artist’s books are well known for their economy of text. But everyone is not visually oriented and the intellectuals like to see some words, so let me give it a go.

If I had to sum up my interest in photography…it must stem from a liking to being able to ‘freeze time.’ Cartier-Bresson described how many a street photographer feels when at large…”I prowled the streets all day, feeling very sprung-up and ready to pounce, determined to ‘trap’ life – to preserve life in the act of living.”

And that pretty much describes me to a proverbial ‘T.’ As an example, when working the subway in NYC I generally hop on the first or last car and at every stop I move to the next car to have a fresh look at the world with the hope of finding something interesting to document.

Now, combine that frantic need to see and record with a dose of Elliott Erwitt…”I just take pictures and hope something comes out of it.”

Erwitt’s quote reminds me that luck is a big factor in getting that iconic shot and to try and keep a big ego in check. Street photographers are not cut from the same cloth as studio photographers or sunset specialists. With my type of work, having a big ego and being a little off your rocker helps get the shot when the need to shove your camera in some strangers face at 2 AM arises. To do good street photography, societal conventions can not always be maintained.

Photography of all genres trains practitioners to concentrate their vision and see things the average person may overlook. Before I was a photographer, I would seldom look at the small details or focus on a subject for any length of time.

Now I notice the beauty of a weathered wall. I see potential for a photo in a dusty window screen. In short, photographers are always looking. We look at everything, visualizing play of light, composition, shapes, color, patterns and especially in my case people. For the social documentarian our work is based on humanity…people are our landscape!

There is something that transforms the snapshot into a photograph. A spark of alchemy the photographer uses that turns the ordinary photo into something that is worthy of a second look. That elusive transformation is what I set out to capture in my photography.

In a 1979 interview entitled Inside New York’s Art World, artist Louise Nevelson said:  “I think that when someone is willing to live and die for something…that means it is in the genes.”  That pretty much sums up the sacrifices that many an artist will go through in order to do their art – they are willing to live and die for their art. Whether painter, draftsman, photographer, writer, musician, sculptor, actor or poet, artists use their art as a way to see, interpret and make sense of their world.

If you’re dedicated to your art and freezing time is in your blood, you MUST produce and keep producing, whether you have an outlet or not to make $…or even have any practical use for your output. Irrespective of recognition, fame and riches, we all have one thing in common…as long as we can keep pressing the button and freeze time, we feel the better for it.

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Selection from The Americans…60 years after Frank (Candid)

by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Public Collections:

I have photograph(s) and/ or limited edition hand-printed artist’s books at the following institutions:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Rhode Island School of Design – Fleet Library Special Collections, Rhode Island

Oxford Bodleian Library – Special Collections U.K.

Toronto University – Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library, Canada

British Library – Special Collections, U.K.

Rutgers University – Special Collections Library, New Jersey

Columbia University – Avery Fine Arts Library Special Collections, New York

Art Center College of Design – Fogg Library Special Collections, California

Brown University – Special Collections Art Library, Rhode Island

University of California Berkeley – Special Collections Art Library, California

Mennello Museum of Art, Florida

The Art Museum at The University of Kentucky, Kentucky (a)

Mead Art Museum – Amherst College, Massachusetts

Victoria and Albert Museum – National Art Library Special Collections, U.K.

NYU – Fales Library Special Collections, New York

Amherst College – Special Collections Library, Massachusetts

Stanford University – Special Collections Art & Architecture Library, California

Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, China

Allen Memorial Museum – Oberlin College, Ohio

University of Exeter – Bill Douglas Centre, U.K.

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center – Vassar College, New York

Flint Institute of Art, Michigan

Noyes Museum of Art – Stockton College, New Jersey

RISD Museum, Rhode Island

California State Library Sacramento – Special Collections, California

International Center of Photography – Special Collections Library, New York

Fashion Institute of Technology – Marcus Library Special Collections, New York

Wright State University – Special Collections Dept of Art and History, Ohio

American Motorcycle Museum – Pinkerton, Ohio

National University of Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Colby Museum of Art – Colby College, Maine

The Kinsey Institute, Indiana

University of Southern California – One Archives, California

Bibliotheque Kandinsky Special Collections – Centre Pompidou, France

Tweed Museum of Art – University of Minnesota, Minnesota

San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas

Spencer Museum of Art – University of Kansas, Kansas

Yale University – Haas Art Library Special Collections, Connecticut

UCLA – Charles E. Young Research Library Special Collections, California

UCONN – Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Special Collections, Connecticut

Brooklyn Museum Library – Special Collections, New York

Muscarelle Museum of Art – College of William and Mary, Virginia

The National Library of Sweden – Special Collections, Sweden

Museum of Fine Art Houston – Hirsch Library Special Collections, Texas

The University of Chicago – Special Collections Library, Illinois

The University of California Santa Barbara – Special Collections, California

Smithsonian American Art Museum Library – Special Collections, Washington D.C.

Corcoran Gallery College of Art – Special Collections, Washington D.C.

The University of the Arts – Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania

Reed College Library – Special Collections, Oregon

The Art Institute of Chicago School of Art – Flaxman Special Collections, Illinois

Ringling College of Art And Design – Special Collections Library, Florida

The Newberry – Special Collections, Illinois

New School Archives & Special Collections, New York

Cranbrook Academy of Art – Special Collections Library, Michigan

San Francisco Public Library – Special Collections, California

Maryland Institute College of Art – Decker Special Collections, Maryland

National Library of South Africa – Special Collections, Pretoria, South Africa

Bard College – Stevenson Library Special Collections, New York

University of Pennsylvania – Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pennsylvania

University California Santa Cruz – McHenry Library Special Collections, California

SCAD Savannah – Special Collections, Georgia

The National Vietnam War Museum, Texas (a)

Mills College Library – Special Collections, California

Colby Library – Special Collections, Maine

University of Nevada Reno – Special Collections, Nevada

Northwestern University – McCormick Special Collections, Illinois

Boston Public Library – Special Collections, Massachusetts

University of Iowa – Martin Rare Book Special Collections, Iowa

University of Tulsa – McFarlin Special Collections, Oklahoma

Oberlin College – Mudd Center Special Collections, Ohio

New York Public Library – Special Collections, New York

Harvard Radcliffe Institute – Schlesinger Special Collections, Massachusetts

DePaul – Richardson Special Collections, Illinois

West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia

UIC – Health Science Library Special Collections, Illinois

Center for Popular Music, Tennessee

University of Colorado – Anschutz Special Collections, Colorado

Cleveland Museum of Art – Ingalls Special Collections, Ohio

University of Kentucky – Special Collections, Kentucky

Dwight Anderson Memorial Music Library, Kentucky

Trinity College Watkinson – Special Collections, Connecticut

Cushing / Whitney Medical Library Yale Special Collections, Connecticut

The Archives of Appalachia, Tennessee

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / German National Library Special Collections, Germany

Harwood Museum of Art – University of New Mexico, New Mexico

University of London – Special Collections Senate Library, U.K.

National Library of Scotland – Special Collections, Scotland

Center for Creative Photography – Special Collections, Arizona

Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida

The University of Memphis – Music Branch, Tennessee

Southern Oregon University Hannon Library Special Collections, Oregon

The College of William & Mary Earl Gregg Swem Library, Virginia

Middlebury – Special Collections Library, Vermont

University of South Carolina – Irvin Rare Books aSpecial Collections, South Carolina

University of Colorado Boulder – Special Collections Library, Colorado

NCSU Libraries – Special Collections, North Carolina

University Michigan – Joseph A. Labadie Collection Special Collections Library, Michigan

University of Victoria – McPherson Library Special Collections, Victoria, B.C. Canada

Arizona State University – Special Collections Library, Arizona

Bryn Mawr College – Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania

USC – Doheny Memorial Library Special Collections, California

University of Rochester – Rush Rhees Library Special Collections, New York

Wake Forest University – ZSR Special Collections, North Carolina

Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania

College of the Holy Cross , Massachusetts (b)

University of Illinois at Chicago Daley Special Collections, Illinois

Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minnesota

George Washington University – Gelman Special Collections, Washington D.C.

Boston College – Burns Library Special Collections, Massachusetts

Auburn University – Draughon Library Special Collections, Alabama

Openbare Bibliotheek Special Collections, Amsterdam, Netherlands

University of Illinois at Chicago – Daley Library Special Collections, Illinois

State Library of Victoria Special Collections, Melbourne, Australia

Ohio State University – Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Ohio

National Archives Netherlands, De Haag, Netherlands

University of Amsterdam Special Collections, Netherlands

Rijksmuseum – Research Library, Netherlands

University of Maryland – Baltimore County Special Collections, Maryland

Tate Museum Research Library Special Collections, London, England

Cornell University Library Rare Books, Manuscripts and Archives, New York

University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pennsylvania

James Madison University Special Collections, Virginia

Bowdoin College Special Collections, Maine

Widener University Special Collections, Pennsylvania

University of South Florida Special Collections, Florida

Amon Carter Museum Conservation Lab, Texas

Princeton University Firestone Library Special Collections, New Jersey

Library of Congress Special Collections, Washington, D.C

Image Permanence Institute Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

University of Pittsburgh Medical School Special Collections, Pennsylvania

Metropolitan Museum of Art Conservation Lab, New York

University of Houston Special Collections, Texas

(a) Delivered – Pending Board Approval

(b) Digital Collection

I certify this biography is accurate as 9.25.2020

Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Contact: shiroplum1@gmail.com

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