American Beauty/Melancholy Princess

Item

Title
American Beauty/Melancholy Princess
Creator
Zorn B. Taylor
Artist ID
192
Description
Flash photography portrait of a Black girl wearing a crown with loop earrings and a heart necklace. Wavy texture superimposed over the whole image.
Category of Media
Photograph
Media
Digital C-Print
Accession Number
2017.001
Location
storage - VB
Dimensions of Work
20.5" x 14.5"
Artist Bio
Zorn Taylor is a Seattle-based portrait photographer, photographing humans and documenting community. Taylor makes portraits that build community by celebrating the stories of the human beings that comprise it. As an artist, Taylor’s attention is focused on how community is created and nurtured and grown. Taylor’s work describes a beautiful, expanding community and imagines how it could become even richer. Taylor is a believer in the beloved community and imagines a community that manifests through the actions we take to love, the words we use to describe that love and the narratives we weave about these relationships.
Source: Photographic Center Northwest - https://pcnw.org/education/faculty/

Artist website: https://zornimages.com/