Curtice Taylor “Transforming Nature: Gardens and Landscapes 1985 - 2011”
Leica Gallery in New York
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After making a decent living producing hand-painted photos for album and book covers and getting his first editorial spreads, Curtice Taylor’s career took a radical turn in 1980 when the English landscape designer Russell Page, an old family friend, called in a panic to ask Taylor if he could photograph the gardens of the golden couple, Bill and Babe Paley, as the UK photographer assigned by Country Life was ‘indisposed.’ ” I soon realized,” Taylor told an interviewer several years ago, “that they call it landscape architecture for a reason. These man- made landscapes are conceived by artists who use plants and what they call ‘hardscapes’ to create spaces that are as much architecture as horticulture… Anyone can take a photo of beautiful flowers, but to shoot gardens you must be there at the moment when that human design is illuminated by natural light, when they align. The results have sometimes been so profound I forget to click the shutter.” His photographs soon began to appear in magazines and newspapers including House and Garden, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, House Beautiful and many others, as well as countless garden books. In 2015 Monacelli Press will publish his book on garden conservation, Saving America’s Treasured Landscapes. Taylor has been teaching at the School of Visual Arts since 1981 and has also taught at SUNY Purchase, the Maine Media Workshop and will soon begin workshops at the Center for Alternative Photography.
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from February 28, 2014 to April 19, 2014