Photography by Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor
Below: Maggie Taylor, Girl in a bee dress, 2004, pigmented inkjet print, 58 x 58”
Maggie Taylor was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961. In 1983, she graduated Cum Laude from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and shortly thereafter began graduate studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1987 she received her MFA degree and in 1989 married Jerry Uelsmann. In 1995, when a representative from Adobe approached Uelsmann to create a poster for the company using Photoshop, Taylor offered her assistance. She read the Photoshop manual and became intrigued with the entire process. Uelsmann created the photograph for the poster and returned to his work in the darkroom while Taylor continued to experiment with the computer and Photoshop software. By 1998, she was using the computer exclusively to create her images. Above: Maggie Taylor, Sketchy characters, 2009, pigmented inkjet print, 15 x 15”
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