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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''. ==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.〔 After their travels in Asia, Taylor and Dubler befriended Gillett Griffin, then curator of pre-Columbian art at Princeton University Art Museum. 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.〔 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, ''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 work by the artist Daniel Brush and ''Waddesdon Manor : The Heritage of a Rothschild House'' (2010), a one-year study of Ferdinand de Rothschild's Waddesdon Manor.〔 In 1991 Taylor and Dubler established Kubaba books, a publishing company devoted to produce limited-edition photography books.〔 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."〔 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;〔 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.〔 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Bigelow Taylor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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