Brian Taylor

MFA, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 1979

MA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 1976

BA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 1975

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www.briantaylorphotography.com

Brian Taylor (b. 1954), who obtained his MFA at the University of New Mexico (1979), where he worked with Betty Hahn and shared a darkroom with Joel-Peter Witkin, innovatively explores lyrical moments in the modern world through historic nineteenth-century printing techniques, mixed media, and handmade books that incorporate analog and digital methods.

Taylor handles his initial photographs as raw material to later be shaped into complex compositions. Pushing against precedents including his own tight, ...

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