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Terri
01-23-2011, 10:11 AM
I get tired of always being a day late and a dollar short. :-x

While recently leafing through my old copy of Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes by Robert Hirsch & John Valentino (an excellent tome for anyone playing in alternative photographic techniques), I was again reminded how much I liked an image displayed on the back cover, by a photographer/artist named Maggie Taylor (http://www.maggietaylor.com).

I finally took the time to search her out via the internet to see if she was still around. I figured, given the age of both the book’s edition and, in particular, the print I’m so fond of, one never knows, right?

Ha! She is very much around and quite busy. It seems most of her time these days is spent touring with her recent series for a new edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and this tour has gone global. Who knew?? :razz:

She also passed through Atlanta within the last six months, on a lecture tour with none other than Jerry Uelsmann (http://www.uelsmann.net). Anyone familiar with Uelsmann’s photography need only take a quick look at Taylor’s to see why those two would have a meeting of the minds. !

Uelsmann uses combination printing in a darkroom, and Taylor uses a computer - but their imaginative images are equally compelling. I would have loved going to the lecture as well as seeing the exhibit – if only I’d known. :gah:

Taylor’s work is assembled from her photographs and objects she scans into Photoshop and puts together with layers. Being an analog photographer, it’s all Greek to me and I can’t see myself ever working in this fashion (for me, computers = day job). ;)

It’s so fascinating to see the art that people can create!

Not all of her work excites me - I can perceive some repetition in her use of certain things - and I find her website annoying, :lol: but overall I think her stuff is great. If I had my druthers, I’d obtain a copy of my favorite piece, Poet’s House (under This & That in her gallery). I tried in vain to copy & paste even the thumbnail here, of course it's protected against such tricks.

Hope you check it out - and enjoy!

ann
01-23-2011, 11:04 AM
not only a meeting of the minds, bodies as well :)

Terri
01-23-2011, 11:26 AM
^^ So true! :lol: That explains a lot, doesn't it?

Although no mention is made on her website, when I spent some time over on his, I found they are husband and wife.

The cynic in me likes my prior assumption better - two separate artists with common vision who toured together on occasion. ;)

ann
01-23-2011, 11:33 AM
what about your romantic side?

Terri
01-23-2011, 12:25 PM
what about your romantic side?Oh, well, my romantic side has to applaud them. I think you're lucky enough just to find yourself a soul mate in this world, even better if you can work/produce your art together. They're living the dream! :razz:

Knowing they must have endless discussions, their different approaches to the same fantasy-type of images is fascinating.

Do you have a preference for one's work over the other, Ann?

ann
01-23-2011, 02:39 PM
no not really, I think Jerry"s is harder to do, but even with digital it is amazing the technical skill, let alone the creative involved with both.