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How To Be An Artist: A Memoir

Combining research with storytelling, Taylor writes essays and creates art that investigates how place shapes resilience, using archival materials and site-specific work to reveal the interconnected transformations between landscape and history.

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Sep 22, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    “Hitler Never Told a Lie” (opens the original)

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    Margaret Bourke-White (MBW) followed Patton into Buchenwald, and this after many years spent documenting WW2 from air, land and sea. I am writing a biography of her for “Women Making History,” an academic series for Bloomsbury Publishing. I’m not exaggerating when I say that her life was literally unbelievable. She was uniquely remarkable at a time when there were so many brave remarkables. I’ll be posting about the project during my process as a way to understand. Hit the follow and share butto

  2. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    My Mother the Artist (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1729" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4aJQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ef0bfb7-6f21-49db-b0d2-038172f585d7_1331x1729.

  3. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Walking the Golden Gate (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    Has “Never Again” been Forgotten? (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="483.7975708502024" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dFdH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2f4d201-7517-4a81-9780-9cc28fb5f739_

  5. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    What if these two photographers had met? (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="844" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swXH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db6d7b5-ece8-4b74-af7e-c68fb6591f9c_488x844.webp"

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