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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WITH A SIGNED LETTER FROM DAVID HURLES DAVID RANDOLPH HURLES (1944-2023)
A selection of approximately 60 photographs from Hurles' Old Reliable Tape and Picture Company. The group features 14 different models, including Stringer (11), Rowdy (7), Brian (6), Michael Anthony (3), Jay (2), Art (3), Chris Mann (2), Vic (2, silver prints), David (2, silver prints), and two envelopes Cowboy I (5) Cowboy II (5). Some are unidentified (12). At least one shows the photographer reflected in a mirror. Chromogenic and silver (4) prints, the images measuring 117x79 to 178x127 mm; 4 5/8x3 1/8 to 7x5 inches, the silver print sheets slightly larger, many with Hurles' inventory notation in ink and some with a model's name in ink, and the silver prints with the Old Reliable address label with a copyright date (1987), on verso. 1987-97.
WITH--A letter from David Hurles, signed by him, to Regiment Publications responding to a request for a tape of a model. 1979. AND--An Old Reliable Catalogue showcasing the models and organizing them by type including: "Muscles Too!," "Stud City," "More Hairy Guys," "The Size of the Matter 2," and advertising tapes; with a pre-addressed envelope for orders.
Hurles produced photographs, audio tapes, and videotapes. His one-man company was run from a private mailbox, primarily in the 1970s and 1980s. His models were hustlers, formerly incarcerated men, and drifters, and Hurles engaged with them in ways that highlighted their aggression, raw physicality, and danger, sometimes with surprising intimacy. Hurles preferred straight models, and his audio recordings featured his own encounters with them, revealing his own charged desires. Filmmaker John Waters wrote about Hurles in his book Role Models: "David likes psychos. Nude ones. Money-hungry drug addicts with big dicks. Rage-filled robbers without rubbers. And of course, convicts."
