Updated: May 2003

"...a collection of his allusively tangential views of the L.A. porrn industry, which is so smartly edited...and densely packed that it has far more impact..." —The Village Voice, Vince Aletti's selection for Best Photography Books of 2001

"...Burton finds beauty in unexpected places. His latest collection provides a subtle, abstracted view of a sordid world: the adult film business." —"Stuff We Like," Brill's Content

"A look into L.A.'s dark world of porn, Dreamland highlights erotic photographer Jeff Burton's clearly composed images of a dirty business." —Detour

"In Jeff Burton's still lifes of L.A. porn sets, solitary cars in parking lots take center stage, while bare buttocks, oiled bodies and collagen-pumped hard-ons fade into the background. The message? The sexualization of absolutely everything—bar sex." —Dazed and Confused (8 page excerpt)

"Burton's porn-set pictures take slyness to new heights of precision: there's rarely anything visible that wouldn't pass muster in Ladies Home Journal. It's style-as-metaphor that he perfected in 1999's Jeff Burton Untitled, and brings to full bloom in his latest. The photographer has an affinity for mirrors like Douglas Sirk, and Dreamland has more carpeting than Carpeteria. The HOLLYWOOD sign is as ubiquitous as the palm tree: Burton has taken John Rechy's City of Night and dragged it into the sunlight. The guilt has been replaced with track lighting, the bar is fully stocked, and everyone has brought protection." —Flaunt (4 page excerpt)

"Burton is the real deal; he's not a fashion photographer playing at porn, but he's a recognized artist..." —Jalouse

"Burton's behind the scenes photographs pay idiosyncratic attention to details overlooked..." —V

"...Burton freeze-frames a rugged set of cheekbones, a buoyant blond tendril, a glinting copper thigh' his lens sees these little ecstasies and ignores the oooh's and ah's we've come to expect not only from porn flicks, but from an increasing number of of documentaries about porn stars. Sweet relief." —Nerve

"...Burton's work is anything but obvious. The usual glittery clichés and shocking theater are absent. Instead, Burton transforms these charged settings, leaving only curiously polite slices of the demimonde with vague undertones of elicit encounters and muted erotic meetings. These scenes might be quite harmless, but nothing is as banal as it seems, and the atmosphere suggest a drama about to unfold. Burton relies on our collective imagination, and our latent voyeuristic impulses, to fill in the plot." —Paper

“The cover photograph is a tease, but so are most of the one hundred images in the book and that seems to be the point Burton is making….The book as a whole is the work of art, constructed from bits and pieces that are, in sum, just another day of sex for pay.” —Lambda Book Report

“Burton, often shooting from knee height, not only captures sensuality in an industry where hardcore, aggressive sex is almost de rigueur, but also takes some damn funny shots.” —Arena

"....Burton dares the viewer to imagine life beyond the frame." —Out

"More often than not, Burton harnesses the typical porno sex dream to urge us to consider our desires. He uses the cinematic lighting, set decoration, and well-fluffed and makeup-daubed naked flesh, and uses it to create almost poetic images of sensuality, longing, implied narratives and curiously abstracted flesh.... His pictures bring a sense of poignancy to the pornographic subjects. They reflect back desires draped in new meanings, and they have a helluva lot more staying power than a video wank." —Bay Area Reporter

"Jeff burton's photo/pornographic tour through L.A." —L.A. Weekly

"Burton may be breaking the rules of pornography but he understands the cardinal edict of showbiz: always leave them wanting more." —black + white (4 page excerpt)

More Press Coverage !!
i-D, 5 page excerpt
THE Magazine, "National Spotlight"