14 Facts About David Hurles

David Randolph Hurles was born on in Cincinnati and is a gay pornographer, whose one-man company, run from a private mailbox, was called Old Reliable Tape and Picture Company.

David Hurles's work, produced primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, falls into three categories: photographs, audio tapes, and videotapes.

David Hurles's first published pictures appeared in Drummer, 21 ; no other magazine would touch them.

David Hurles shot many covers and centerfolds for Fritscher's zine Man2Man Quarterly, whose mailing address was Hurles' San Francisco apartment.

David Hurles chose to downplay technical fireworks with his camera in order to focus on the emotional pyrotechnics of his models.

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David Hurles's models, picked up on the street or sent to him by referral, would come to his apartment, get naked, and masturbate.

David Hurles printed his pictures in his own darkroom, and filled all orders single-handedly.

David Hurles' pictures have been reproduced repeatedly without his permission and without compensation to him.

Besides paying for modeling, David Hurles paid many of his models to talk, while alone in a room with the door closed, into an ordinary cassette recorder, typically on how they would like to mistreat gay men.

David Hurles wrote an introduction: "A Thousand Light Years Ago: Drummer", to Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer, Volume 1.

David Hurles' memoirs, drafted in 1992 as No Title Necessary: A Few Notes, Comments, and Observations, have not been published.

David Hurles's company folded, and he lived on welfare and food stamps.

John Waters declared himself influenced by Hurles, and dedicated to him part of a chapter in his Role Models, stating that "The wonderful, beautiful, scary life of David Hurles has been an inspiration to my inner filth for years".

David Hurles is a true intellectual, a psychological hobbyist, and even more interesting as a person than he is as a photographer.