Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Lucien Giles Castaing-Taylor (born 10 January 1966, Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a British anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at The University of Southern California and his Ph.D. at The University of California, Berkeley. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. His works include In and Out of Africa, which he made with Ilisa Barbash in 1992. It is an ethnographic video about issues of authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the African art market that won eight international awards. He also recorded the film Sweetgrass (2009), which is described as "an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals." He is the founding editor of the American Anthropological Association’s journal Visual Anthropology Review (1991–94).
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DirectingBirthday
January 10, 1966Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
25Place of birth
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UKAlso known as
Люсьен Кастен-ТейлорCast credits
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Sweetgrass
Director, Director of Photography, EditorLeviathan
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, SoundManakamana
ProducerStill Life
DirectorSomniloquies
Director, Editor, Director of PhotographyIn and Out of Africa
Director, Director of Photography, EditorAh Humanity!
DirectorThe Eye's Dream
ProducerCaniba
Director, Sound, Editor, Producer, Director of PhotographyCommensal
DirectorHell Roaring Creek
Director, Editor, Sound, Director of PhotographyHigh Trail
DirectorBedding Down
DirectorExpedition Content
ProducerDe Humani Corporis Fabrica
Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound, WriterThe Flaneurs #3
ProducerHe Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, SoundSpirit Stills
DirectorLast Judgement
DirectorDay Break on the Bed Ground
Director