Vantage Points
Allen Frame: Whereupon
with Phil Taylor
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Allen Frame discusses his newly published photobook Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2024) with Phil Taylor, Associate Curator in the George Eastman Museum’s Department of Photography.
Whereupon is a collection of color and black-and-white images from the late 70s to the early 90s that expands the premise of Fever — Allen’s 2021 book of color photographs taken in 1981 — to show a broader time period with the same subject: his artist friends in their apartments and lofts and on the streets of New York.
Allen and Phil will talk about the new book, and the 1980s in New York, what it was like to be an artist photographing other artists, the photography world of that period, the influences on the work — particularly in film and photography — and more.
Allen Frame is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in New York, where his work is represented by Gitterman Gallery. In 2025, his solo exhibition Amalfi was presented at College of Charleston and his photographs exhibited at Kupper-Modern in Zurich and at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. He has released four books of photography, including Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2023); Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023); Fever (Matte Editions, 2021); and Detour (Kehrer, 2001). He has also been the curator of many exhibitions, including Luxe, Calme, Volupte, co-curated with Sergio Bessa at Candice Madey Gallery, New York, in 2023, and Love and Jump Back, the Photography of Charles Henri Ford, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, 2020-21. He received the Rome Prize from the American Academy in 2017/18. He teaches photography at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, International Center of Photography, and for Strudelmedialive.com
Allen teaches "The Life You're In: The Joy and Pathos of Autobiography" for StrudelmediaLive.
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Phil Taylor’s research focuses on photography’s place within 20th-century avant-garde art, Surrealism, and global modern and contemporary art. In January 2022 he joined the George Eastman Museum as a New York City-based curator. At the Eastman Museum, Phil has organized recent and forthcoming exhibitions of the work of Liz Deschenes, Gregory Halpern, and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, as well as New Directions: Recent Acquisitions, co-curated with Louis Chavez.
Previously Phil was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, where he organized several exhibitions of work from the collection and assisted Roxana Marcoci on the 2022 retrospective and catalogue Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear. With Marcoci, he co-edited Wolfgang Tillmans: A Reader. Previously an active critic for Artforum, among other publications, Phil has published recent essays on the work of Lucas Blalock, Dora Maar, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
