{{short description|American photographer and filmmaker}} {{Infobox person | name = Brandon Tauszik | image = Brandon-tauszik-bts.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1986}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Photography · Filmmaking | website = {{URL|brandontauszik.com}} }}
'''Brandon Tauszik''' (born 1986)<ref>{{Cite web |title=INFO |url=https://brandontauszik.com/info |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=Brandon Tauszik |language=en-US}}</ref> is an American photographer and filmmaker, based in California.
==Life and work== In 2011, Tauszik began covering the doomsday prophesies of Harold Camping and the Family Radio ministry.<ref name="NPR">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/05/24/136587343/following-harold-camping-facing-a-failed-prediction|publisher=NPR|title=Following Harold Camping, Facing A Failed Prediction|first=Barbara Bradley|last=Hagerty|date=May 24, 2011}}</ref> In 2014, Tauszik began a GIF-based series on Oakland's black barbers called Tapered Throne.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-02-10 |title=Celebrating the barbershop as a pillar of black communities |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/29721/1/brandon-tauszik-celebrating-the-barbershop-as-a-pillar-of-black-communities |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Teicher |first=Jordan G. |date=2015-06-28 |title=These Hypnotic GIFs Show Why Everyone Goes to Oakland to Cut Their Hair |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/06/28/brandon_tauszik_photographs_oakland_s_black_barbershops_in_his_series_tapered.html |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=Slate Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-09-14 |title=Photographer Captures The Essence Of Barbershops In Eye-Opening Gifs |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-barbershop-gifs-tauszik-oakland_n_55f2e940e4b077ca094eb68b |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=HuffPost UK |language=en}}</ref>
He has directed the music videos for rapper Antwon's "Helicopter"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfbg.com/2012/09/11/dream-90s|title=Dream of the '90s|work=San Francisco Bay Guardian|first=Emily|last=Savage|date=September 11, 2012}}</ref> and "Living Every Dream",<ref>{{cite web |last=Goble |first=Corban |date=July 26, 2012 |title=Antwon - 'Living Every Dream' (Prod. Pictureplane) Video |url=http://www.stereogum.com/1104471/antwon-living-every-dream-video-prod-pictureplane/video/ |work=Stereogum}}</ref> as well as producer RL Grime's "Heard Me".
==Publications== *''Pale Blue Dress'' (2020)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dickerman |first=Kenneth |last2=Tauszik |first2=Brandon |date=2020-06-22 |title=Perspective {{!}} This photographer's photos explore the culture of Civil War reenactors |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2020/06/22/this-photographers-photos-explore-culture-civil-war-reenactors/ |access-date=2025-06-07 |work=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Brandon Tauszik's Pale Blue Dress examines the subculture of reenactment groups |url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/brandon-tauszik-pale-blue-dress-photography-030920 |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=www.itsnicethat.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-22 |title=Brandon Tauszik: Pale Blue Dress |url=https://gupmagazine.com/portfolios/brandon-tauszik-pale-blue-dress/ |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=GUP Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> *''Fifteen Vaults'' (2023)<ref>{{Cite web |title="Fifteen Vaults" by Photographer Brandon Tauszik |url=https://www.booooooom.com/2023/08/16/fifteen-vaults-by-photographer-brandon-tauszik/ |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=BOOOOOOOM! |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Brandon Tauszik's latest series delves into familial alienation and the epidemic of loneliness |url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/brandon-tauszik-fifteen-vaults-photography-project-180124 |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=www.itsnicethat.com |language=en}}</ref> *''Water & Power'' (2024)
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