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Online Exhibition CatalogueExhibition runs: December 3 - 28 2011
SunStreet Photography Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USAhotelvitrine.tumblr.com (blog) hotelvitrine.com (portfolio)
Exhibition description:
This recent body of work was created during a three month period in 2011 while living in Tucson, Arizona USA. The images in the work represent a personal visual interpretation of historical, social, political and cultural elements of the region. They form part of a journal of landscapes, people and the environment of towns and cities. The visual language ranges from portraiture to pictorialism, landscape and abstraction.
The title of the exhibition, “Index AZ” denotes a systematic cataloguing of a subject matter, such as a library referencing system, while also alluding to the state itself. However an “index” can also mean something that reveals or indicates something else. Thus the work is not a comprehensive portrayal, but intended as an evocation of place and time.
The subjects depicted in the body of work include cultural festivals such as the “Dia de los Muertos”, images of the US Mexican border, the high desert landscape, Native American reservations, gun culture, the railroad, and the Barrio Viejo in Tucson.
Phil Taylor is an artist, educator, designer and musician living and working in Brighton, UK, working primarily with video, photography and sound. Taylor has shown his work nationally and internationally since graduating from Oxford Brookes University in 1998.
Taylor completed a Fine Art Honours degree (Printmaking) in 1987 and a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education from the London Institute in 1988. He was awarded an MA in Electronic Media from Oxford Brookes University in 1999.
Many of Taylor’s time-based projects focus upon specific locations that have an historical event or significance associated with them, such as the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany and the former East German TV Tower in Berlin. These works interpret and document the locations whilst also presenting an emotive and personal viewpoint. A long running theme in Taylor’s work has been his exploration of cultural and historical as-pects of life in the North-West American state of Montana and more recently the South-West American state of Arizona.
Taylor’s research is focused on ongoing practice-led activity. His practice-led research explores the syn-thesis of different disciplines and media where the artistic concept and form of expression are centered upon sound and moving image within the themes of identity, location, culture and history.
Design Work & Academic Profile: www.philtaylor-design.co.uk Founder of Atom Grad (music): www.atomgrad.co.uk
Phil Taylor - Studio Hotel Vitrine ©2011
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‘Historic Tucson’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘WMD’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Urban Ghost Series, Tucson’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Saguaro, Tucson’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Tucson, El Paso’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘US/Mexican Border, Arizona’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Behemoths’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Dia De Los Muertos’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Toadvine (after ‘Blood Meridian’ by Cormac McCarthy)’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘10c Wings, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Blood Meridian (excerpt) - after Cormac McCarthy’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Abandoned Building, Hopi Land, Arizona’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Navajo Native American Reservation, Arizona’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Sandstorm Hopi Land’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Barrio Viejo House 2am, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Barrio Viejo House, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Barrio Viejo house with skull and Mexican wrestling mask, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Beau Brummel African American Club, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Behemoth, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Building America’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Dia De Los Muertos, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Diner, Benson, Arizona’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Elfrida, Arizona’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Fairbank Cemetery, Arizona’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Garden, Barrio Viejo, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Historic Downtown, Wilson, Arizona’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Motel Sign ,Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Occupy Wall Street, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Optimist Club, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Police Tape, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Shelter, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Spanish Trail Motel, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Tarot Card Reader, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Vet and Store Owner’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Travelling Man, Tucson’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Vet’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Tucson Sundown, Warehouse District’ (digital print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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‘Tucson, Arizona’ (35mm film print) Phil Taylor ©2011
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