"Parking Lot," Birmingham, Alabama.           © Bruce W. Taylor, 1982.

"When traveling (depending on the trip?), I did use a 35 mm camera. On this scene, I was walking back to my car, the sun was going in and out of the clouds as it was setting.
I waited for the right moment and clicked the shutter."

This print can be seen at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art within their permanent art collection: "Revelations II: Recent Photography Acquisitions from 2021."

This collection is a sweeping survey of documentary and fine-art photographic traditions practiced from the early 20th century to the present.

Acquired by the Museum over the past decade, these photographs represent diverse perspectives and experiments within the medium and reflect the depth and complexity of the region.  Photographers included in Revelations II are:  Kael Alford, Todd Bertolaet, Jane Rule Burdine, Debbie Fleming Cafferty, William Christenberry, Marti Corn, Matthew Cronin, Jim Dow, Matt Eich, Birney Imes, Dorothea Lange, Eddie Lanieri, Clarence John Laughlin, Alex Leme, Louviere + Vanessa, Guy Mendes, Wright Morris, Ken Murphy, Josephine Sacabo, Magdalena Solé, Frank Stewart, Bruce Taylor, Warren Thompson, Bradly Dever Treadaway, Bruce West and Marion Post Wolcott.  Richard McCabe, Ogden Museum Curator of Photography.

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located at 925 Camp Street, New Orleans Louisiana 70130.

For more information, visit www.ogdenmuseum.org.

"The Workhorse," Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 1977.   This was my main camera (Calumet 4" x 5") and lens that I used for more than forty years.
I did most of my photographic work with this camera, exposing over two thousand + negatives and positives.

Print and Image size: 9 1/2" x 9 3/4" on 13" x 19" premium pigment paper, 2017.

In around 2020, I sold this camera and my other three lenses to a teacher that taught at the Midtown High School, previously known as Henry Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia.

This pigment print:  $250.00 + shipping & insurance.   You can see a mock up or a framed image of this print HERE:   "Bruce W. Taylor Archives."

In the late 1970's, I was just starting out on my own photographic business, specializing in commercial architectural photography.
In January of 1981, Clarence John Laughlin was having a photographic opening at the Jay Crouse Gallery in Atlanta.  I decided to go.

Mr. Laughlin was nice enough to sign his book for me.  In that time period, Atlanta was hot in photographic print sales. I don't know about today?

In the early 1960s, I was just learning photography.  I started by using my father's cameras which were 6 x 6 cm and 6 x 9 cm formats.

Although my high school had a darkroom in the chemistry classroom it was reserved exclusively for the yearbook staff.  So, I relied on a local camera store to process my film and make 3½ x 5 inch and larger prints.

In 1965, I purchased my first camera. It was a Kodak Instamatic 324, manufactured in Germany with a Rodenstock lens.  It was a significant investment at that time.

It used different films (negative and positive) but I mostly used the twelve exposure black and white film. The negative size was about one inch square.

The image shown above is from one of my earliest photographic projects using this camera and was taken near my home in Frederick County, Maryland.  Titled: “I-70 Construction at Ridge Road, Frederick County, Maryland, 1965.”

It documents the massive excavation required to cut Interstate 70 through the Catoctin Mountain range.   The highway project connected Washington, D.C., with northwestern Maryland and beyond.

The image above has been produced as a panoramic print. It's full image size is 24 1/8 inches in length and each print is 5 1/2 inches square (approx.).

My name and copyright date (on the upper part of print) are not on the actual prints.  Several prints are available for purchase.  Unmounted single weight prints $150.00 each and unmounted double weight prints $300.00 each.
Prices of prints do not include shipping or insurance.

For the panoramic print above, I had four negatives scanned at 2,500 dpi on a 8" x 10" drum scanner by John Dean of Dean Imaging, Atlanta, GA.