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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition

Barney Taxel

Photographer and Educator
Home 2905 Edgehill Road
Cleveland Heights Ohio 44118 United States Cell Phone: 2168709512 Website: Barney Fredrick Taxel

Bio

I was born in Brooklyn, New York City. My parents were the children of immigrants. 
I attended  Case Western Reserve University, earning a BA, 1972, with studies in architecture and a concentration in fine art photography as a CWRU Undergraduate Scholar.
I’m married to Laura Faye Taxel, writer. We have three adult sons, three daughters in law and four grandchildren.  

Laura and I live in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.  

 

Artist Statement

My photography is informed by my early career studies with Minor White and Nicholas Hlobeczy. The works are the expression of search for presence:

  • … in my subjects,
  • … in me- the photographer,
  • … in the photographs that emerge and
  • … in the audience.

My images are my passion for the photographic process in fine art.

Since 1971 my work has appeared in numerous one person and group exhibitions. I am represented in many corporate and individual collections, and have received citations and awards periodically.  I recently retired from teaching advanced black and white, color and digital photography at the Case Western Reserve University Art Studios.  In 2011, I was inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame. My photographic monograph- The Lake View Cemetery: Photographs from Cleveland’s Historic Landmark, is published by the University of Akron Press.