Barney Taxel moved to Cleveland from New York City in 1967. He is an award-winning commercial and fine art photographer, and teacher of photography. His work is exhibited and reproduced frequently in regional publications and the New York Times. Taxel has several books to his credit, including The Lake View Cemetery: Photographs From Cleveland's National Landmark, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Cleveland: Continuing the Renaissance, The Science of Music as Medicine, and Cleveland's West Side Market: 100 Years & Still Cooking.