Director

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Directing

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Directed movies: 16Directed series: 0All crew credits: 21

TMDB ID: 1079579

IMDb ID: nm3626583

Known for: Directing

Born: January 10, 1966

Age: 60

Place of birth: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1992 - 2023

Years active: 32

Average TMDB rating: 6.71

Wikidata: Q6697043

Also known as

Люсьен Кастен-Тейлор

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Director (10)Director of Photography (6)Producer (5)

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Biography

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).