James Taylor in China

An American voice in the Middle Kingdom — this fine art documentary photograph of James Taylor in China captures one of those quietly extraordinary moments when a great artist is placed in an unexpected context, the familiar made strange and the strange made intimate. James Taylor, the North Carolina-born singer-songwriter whose voice and guitar have been constants in American music since the late 1960s, is one of the defining figures of the singer-songwriter tradition: the man behind "Fire and Rain", "Carolina in My Mind", "You've Got a Friend", "Sweet Baby James", and dozens of other songs that have become part of the shared emotional vocabulary of several generations. To see him in China — in a country with its own vast and ancient musical traditions, its own relationship to the guitar and to the American popular music that arrived in waves through the twentieth century — is to be reminded of how music travels, how it crosses borders that other things cannot cross, how a voice and a guitar can find an audience anywhere on earth. A photograph for music lovers, for fans of James Taylor, and for anyone drawn to the idea of culture in motion. Printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper with optional acrylic glass or Alu-Dibond mounting for a gallery-quality finish.