John Bigelow Taylor
| John Bigelow Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949/1950 (age 65–66)[1] |
| Occupation | photographer |
| Spouse(s) | Dianne Dubler |
John Bigelow Taylor (c. 1950)[1] is a photographer of works of art based in New York City.[1] Along with his wife Dianne Dubler, Taylor is known for publishing photographic monographs on a diverse range of subjects including architecture and interior design, as well as collections of jewelry and fine art.[1][2]
His work has been described as "superb"[3] by John Boardman of The New York Review of Books and "impressive"[4] by Marie Arana-Ward of the Washington Post.
Career
In the early 1970s John Bigelow Taylor and his partner, Dianne Dubler, traveled throughout southern Asia; the couple documented the peoples, cultures and locations they encountered while traveling and living in India, Afghanistan and Nepal.[2]
After their travels in Asia, Taylor and Dubler befriended Gillett Griffin, then curator of pre-Columbian art at Princeton University Art Museum.[5] Taylor and Dubler have stated that Griffin's encouragement and guidance greatly contributed to Taylor's career as a still life photographer of art, antiquities and architecture.[5]
Taylor later collaborated with publisher Harry N. Abrams on several books including "Wisdom and Compassion : The Sacred Art of Tibet" (1991) featuring photographs of Tibetan sculpture, tapestries and sand mandalas,[6] The Cycladic Spirit (1991) featuring Cycladic art from the Goulandris Collection in Athens,[3] The White House Collection of American Crafts (1995) with Hillary Clinton, Gold Without Boundaries (1998), featuring sculpture and gold work by the artist Daniel Brush[7] and Waddesdon Manor : The Heritage of a Rothschild House (2010), a one-year study of Ferdinand de Rothschild's Waddesdon Manor.[1]
In 1991 Taylor and Dubler established Kubaba books, a publishing company devoted to produce limited-edition photography books.[2] In an interview with the authors of Design Entrepreneur: Turning Graphic Design Into Goods That Sell, when asked about the origin of the company's name, Dubler explained: "Kubaba was the earliest Indo-European name for the great mother-goddess of Anatolia. The name is from the Indian goddess named 'Kunti' and the male honorific 'Baba,' as Kubaba was a self-generating deity."[2]
Inspired by their work on the book Waddesdon Manor : The Heritage of a Rothschild House produced for Scala Art Publishers, Kubaba's focus since 2010 shifted towards producing books that document their clients' private homes and estates;[1] some of these clients have included Jane Stieren and her husband Bill N. Lacy, a former president of the Cooper Union and former executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, as well as Anne Sidamon-Eristoff, a former chairman of the American Museum of Natural History.[1]
Taylor also specializes in jewelry photography as demonstrated in photographs of Elizabeth Taylor's collection for Simon & Schuster's My Love Affair With Jewelry (2002), as well as Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box (2009), a catalog of brooches belonging to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.[1]
Books
- Within the Underworld Sky: Mimbres Ceramic Art in Context, June 1984, 162 pages, ISBN 0-942642-11-2
- Pre-Columbian Art from the Ernest Erickson Collection at the American Museum of Natural History, January 1988, ISBN 0-8109-3169-9
- The Cycladic Spirit: Masterpieces from the Nicholas P. Goulandris Collection, September 1991, 207 pages, ISBN 0-8109-3169-9
- The Inca Empire and Its Andean Origins, October 1993, 251 pages, ISBN 1-55859-556-2
- The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, March 1994, 424 pages, ISBN 0-8109-3191-5
- The Splendor of Ethnic Jewelry, September 1994, 256 pages, ISBN 0-8109-4453-7
- Judith Leiber: The Artful Handbag, March 1995, 159 pages, ISBN 0-8109-3571-6
- Swarovski: The Magic of Crystal, April 1995, 158 pages, ISBN 0-8109-4454-5
- The White House Collection of American Crafts, April 1995, 128 pages, ISBN 0-8109-4035-3
- Masterpieces of American Indian Art: From the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection, September 1995, 96 pages, ISBN 0-8109-2628-8
- Learning from the Dalai Lama: Secrets of the Wheel of Time, October 1995, 40 pages, ISBN 0-525-45063-7
- Gioielli Etnici: Africa, Asia, Americhe, Oceania dalla Collezione di Colette e Jean-Pierre Ghysels, January 1996, 294 pages, ISBN 88-8118-610-1
- The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership, March 1996, 344 pages, ISBN 0-8109-6311-6
- Art in the Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, September 1996, 208 pages, ISBN 0-8109-1972-9
- Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, September 1996, 488 pages, ISBN 0-8109-3985-1
- Kenneth Jay Lane: Faking It, September 1996, 160 pages, ISBN 0-8109-3579-1
- Paul J. Stankard: Homage to Nature, October 1996, 160 pages, ISBN 0-8109-4473-1
- Recycled Re-Seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap, October 1996, 208 pages, ISBN 0-8109-2666-0
- Venetian Glass: Confections in Glass 1855-1914, March 1998, 128 pages, ISBN 0-8109-3939-8
- Daniel Brush: Gold Without Boundaries, September 1998, 275 pages, ISBN 0-8109-4018-3
- Schmuck: Kostbarkeiten aus Afrika, Asien, Ozeanien und Amerika aus der Sammlung Ghysels, January 1999, 287 pages, ISBN 3-7757-0867-7
- Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections, March 1999, 195 pages, ISBN 0-8109-6386-8
- Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan, July 1999, 176 pages, ISBN 0-8118-2307-5
- Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, July 1999, 171 pages, ISBN 0-8156-8127-5
- Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, March 2000, 256 pages, ISBN 0-8109-4392-1
- Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, September 2000, 488 pages, ISBN 0-8109-8204-8
- The Splendor of Ethnic Jewelry: From the Colette and Jean-Pierre Ghysels Collection, March 2001, 256 pages, ISBN 0-8109-2993-7
- Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House, May 2002, 320 pages, ISBN 0-8109-3239-3
- Divine Presence: Arts of India and the Himalayas, August 2003, 180 pages, ISBN 88-7439-022-X
- Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors, November 2003, 295 pages, ISBN 0-8214-1511-5
- Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry, December 2003, 240 pages, ISBN 0-7432-5438-4
- A Walk through the Ages: Chinese Archaic Art from the Sondra Landy Gross Collection, January 2004, 224 pages, ISBN 0-9745561-0-6
- New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, January 2005, 629 pages, ISBN 0-88401-118-6
- Ferdinand Richardt: Drawings of America, 1855-1859, February 2007, 80 pages, ISBN 0-913424-12-9
- Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box, September 2009, 176 pages, ISBN 0-06193-849-1
Photographic exhibitions
- Microcosm: The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden, curated by Christophe W. Mao and Judith Whitbeck, Chinese Scholar's Garden at the Staten Island Botanical Garden, April 26–28, 2002
- The Armory Wall: A Tribute to September 11, ongoing traveling exhibition
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Fabrikant, Geraldine (December 17, 2014). "Your Home on a Coffee Table". New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 Heller, Steven; Talarico, Lita (2008). Design Entrepreneur: Turning Graphic Design Into Goods That Sell. Quayside. p. 211. ISBN 9781616736491. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
- 1 2 Boardman, John (January 16, 1992). "Idolizing". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
- ↑ Arana-Ward, Marie (December 5, 1993). "Gifts of the New World". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
- 1 2 Stratton, Jean (March 10, 2004). "Princeton Personality". Town Topics. LVIII (10). Princeton, New Jersey. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
- ↑ "Exhibit features Tibetan culture". Rome News-Tribune. Associated Press. June 14, 1991. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
- ↑ "Season's art books range from the classic to the eye-opening". Gadsden Times. Associated Press. December 15, 1998. Retrieved December 27, 2014.