Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: January 10, 1966 (59 years old)
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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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Producer
Manakamana
Director
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Writer
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Director
Spirit Stills
Director
Last Judgement
Editor
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Director of Photography
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Producer
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Sound
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Director
Still Life
Producer
The Flaneurs #3
