John Bigelow Taylor (c. 1950) is a photographer of works of art based in New York City. 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.
His work has been described as “superb” by John Boardman of The New York Review of Books and “impressive” by Marie Arana-Ward of the Washington Post.
Table of Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 The Cycladic Spirit: Masterpieces from the Nicholas P. Goulandris Collection
- 1.2 Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet (Revised and Expanded)
- 1.3 Full Metal Jacket
- 1.4 Point Break
- 1.5 Taylors of Harrogate Assorted Specialty Teas Box , 48 count (Pack of 1)
- 1.6 The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership
- 1.7 A Token of Elegance: Cigarette Holders in Vogue
- 1.8 WINFRED REMBERT: Memories of My Youth
- 1.9 Homicide Life on the Street - The Complete Season 6
- 1.10 Splendor of Ethnic Jewelry: From the Colette and Jean Pierre Ghysels Collection
Career
In the into the future 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 animated in India, Afghanistan and Nepal.
After their travels in Asia, Taylor and Dubler were advised by their friend, Gillett Griffin, then curator of pre-Columbian art at Princeton University Art Museum. to concentrate upon the photography of works of art. Taylor and Dubler have acknowledged that Griffin’s support and recommendation greatly contributed to Taylor’s career as a still life photographer of art, antiquities and architecture.
Taylor innovative collaborated similar to publisher Harry N. Abrams upon several books including “Wisdom and Compassion : The Sacred Art of Tibet” (1991) featuring photographs of Tibetan sculpture, tapestries and sand mandalas, The Cycladic Spirit (1991) featuring Cycladic art from the Goulandris Collection in Athens, The White House Collection of American Crafts (1995) with Hillary Clinton, Gold Without Boundaries (1998), featuring sculpture and gold play by the artist Daniel Brush and Waddesdon Manor : The Heritage of a Rothschild House (2010), a one-year investigation of Ferdinand de Rothschild’s Waddesdon Manor.
In 1991 Taylor and Dubler conventional Kubaba books, a publishing company devoted to manufacture limited-edition photography books. In an interview later than the authors of Design Entrepreneur: Turning Graphic Design Into Goods That Sell, when asked just about the extraction of the company’s name, Dubler explained: “Kubaba was the primordial Indo-European broadcast for the great mother-goddess of Anatolia.”
Inspired by their work on the book Waddesdon Manor : The Heritage of a Rothschild House produced for Scala Art Publishers, Kubaba’s focus previously 2010 shifted towards producing books that document their clients’ private homes and estates; some of these clients have included Jane Stieren and her husband Bill N. Lacy, a former president of the Cooper Union and former government director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, as capably as Anne Sidamon-Eristoff, a former chairman of the American Museum of Natural History.
Taylor as well as specializes in jewelry photography as demonstrated in photographs of Elizabeth Taylor’s store for Simon & Schuster’s My Love Affair With Jewelry (2002), as skillfully as Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box (2009), a catalog of brooches belonging to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Last update 2021-08-06