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Judith Taylor: my glass house
The project my glass house replaces the missing windowpanes of the front face of the penitentiary greenhouse with black and white, glass-plate photographs. The photographs in these windows are specimens of the natural habitat found within the walls of Eastern State Penitentiary. This is a work in progress, designed to use the summer months to explore the growth of the site. It will be ongoing through the fall of 2006.
All of these images are photograms, a technique of camera-less imagery that dates back to the very beginnings of photography. Using this process, the photographer sets an object directly onto the prepared light-sensitive surface, and exposes it to light.
The title my glass house refers to the 19th century British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, who converted a similar glass-roofed building into her studio in the mid 1800’s. The title is also a reference to the sense of belonging that Ms. Taylor hopes an inmate might have felt upon being given time in this greenhouse garden.
Judith Taylor received a M.F.A. in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and a B.A. in Studio Art from The Pennsylvania State University. She has been the recipient of an Independence Foundation Fellowship, a Leeway Grant for Excellence, and a Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts grant. She is an associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Arcadia University, and resides in Philadelphia.
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