Comments on: Judith Taylor died http://www.theartblog.org/2010/02/judith-taylor-died/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judith-taylor-died Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's artblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:43:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Art Community Mourns Passing of Judith Taylor | Arcadia University Bulletin http://www.theartblog.org/2010/02/judith-taylor-died/comment-page-1/#comment-7504 Art Community Mourns Passing of Judith Taylor | Arcadia University Bulletin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:53:37 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11729#comment-7504 [...] has marked the passing of Professor Judith Taylor, who ran Arcadia’s photography program. Read more on ArtBlog, which includes links to Taylor’s work at the Eastern State Penitentiary and the [...] [...] has marked the passing of Professor Judith Taylor, who ran Arcadia’s photography program. Read more on ArtBlog, which includes links to Taylor’s work at the Eastern State Penitentiary and the [...]

]]> By: libby http://www.theartblog.org/2010/02/judith-taylor-died/comment-page-1/#comment-7467 libby Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:40:41 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11729#comment-7467 Hi, Richard, thank you so much for sharing that thoughtful remembrance. Hi, Richard, thank you so much for sharing that thoughtful remembrance.

]]> By: Richard Torchia http://www.theartblog.org/2010/02/judith-taylor-died/comment-page-1/#comment-7451 Richard Torchia Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:02:07 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11729#comment-7451 Judy was one of the most positive artists I've had the chance to know. It was always a pleasure to run into her at Arcadia or anywhere else. Her ever ready enthusiasm was tempered by a stoic sense of reality that made her sunny demeanor all the more persuasive for me. Judy's solution-oriented approach to things made a difference by the clear thinking you could hear in the tone of her voice. I witnessed this time and again, whether it was negotiating some administrative situation at a faculty meeting, advising a student, or making plans to visit sites in England and France associated with the origins of photography, a trip I know she was looking forward to making in the year ahead. In her company, things like this seemed possible, and the world less overwhelming. During one of the last conversations we had, she convinced me of the merits of bifocals and how they made more sense to her than searching for those points of focus that progressive lenses required.  I believe that such pragmatic instincts contributed to the poetry of Judy's work, which, for me, has an honesty and immediacy that came from the pure and elemental way she reinvented photography for herself. Her prints give the viewer intimate access to her subjects, which I feel always included a reverence for her medium and the confounding transformations it allows. In 2003, midway through an exhibition at Arcadia that featured an aviary with five live starlings, one of the young birds grew ill and eventually perished. Judy asked, not without hesitation, if she could make a photogram of the fledgling. The result stunned me. This still image, a record of the shadow of the bird cast on the sheet by the sun, appeared to capture the bird in flight. In the print, the starling is alive for all of us again. Judy was one of the most positive artists I’ve had the chance to know. It was always a pleasure to run into her at Arcadia or anywhere else. Her ever ready enthusiasm was tempered by a stoic sense of reality that made her sunny demeanor all the more persuasive for me. Judy’s solution-oriented approach to things made a difference by the clear thinking you could hear in the tone of her voice. I witnessed this time and again, whether it was negotiating some administrative situation at a faculty meeting, advising a student, or making plans to visit sites in England and France associated with the origins of photography, a trip I know she was looking forward to making in the year ahead. In her company, things like this seemed possible, and the world less overwhelming. During one of the last conversations we had, she convinced me of the merits of bifocals and how they made more sense to her than searching for those points of focus that progressive lenses required. 

I believe that such pragmatic instincts contributed to the poetry of Judy’s work, which, for me, has an honesty and immediacy that came from the pure and elemental way she reinvented photography for herself. Her prints give the viewer intimate access to her subjects, which I feel always included a reverence for her medium and the confounding transformations it allows. In 2003, midway through an exhibition at Arcadia that featured an aviary with five live starlings, one of the young birds grew ill and eventually perished. Judy asked, not without hesitation, if she could make a photogram of the fledgling. The result stunned me. This still image, a record of the shadow of the bird cast on the sheet by the sun, appeared to capture the bird in flight. In the print, the starling is alive for all of us again.

]]> By: Erik Brandt http://www.theartblog.org/2010/02/judith-taylor-died/comment-page-1/#comment-7440 Erik Brandt Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:17:01 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11729#comment-7440 I am shocked and saddened by this news, my sincere condolences to her family, students, and friends. I am shocked and saddened by this news, my sincere condolences to her family, students, and friends.

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