Born in Salt Lake City and raised in Los Angeles, Todd Walker was a highly successful commercial photographer in the late 1950s, a career he later gave up to pursue his personal artistic interests. Walker began using alternative photographic processes in the 1960s developing a unique and personal visual language that runs through the last three decades of his work. In 1981 he embraced digital technology to further expand his photographic expression, and became proficient at writing programs to create new tools, which helped to articulate his vision.
Among the alternative processes Walker employed was the dye coupler Sabattier Effect also known as Solarization. He referred to this as the “line drawn by light,” as it accentuated the edges and lines of forms in a photograph. He developed a keen color language that is prominent in much of his later work, but finds its apex in small lithographic books and portfolios made with a succession of techniques including optical, darkroom, digital and small offset press.
He taught for many years at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, UCLA extension, University of Florida, Gainesville, and the University of Arizona, Tucson. His work can be found in both public and private collections both nationally and internationally.
