Alison Castle

{{short description|American photographer and book editor|bot=PearBOT 5}}

Alison Castle is an American photographer and book editor who most prominently worked on The Stanley Kubrick Archives for Taschen{{Cite web |last=Mackintosh |first=Hamish |date=2005-04-27 |title=Talk time: Alison Castle |url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/apr/28/interviews.onlinesupplement |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} She is also the editor of Linda McCartney's Life in Photography, Some Like It Hot, Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made, Marc Newson: Works, and Saturday Night Live: The Book, all published by TASCHEN.

From 2012 to 2019 she worked on a major, 5-volume retrospective of the life and work of Jacques Tati, [https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/film/all/01183/facts.jacques_tati_the_complete_works.htm published by TASCHEN] in the fall of 2019.

Castle is the daughter of Nancy Jurs and Wendell Castle, prominent artists who reside in Scottsville, New York. She attended Allendale Columbia School in Pittsford.{{Cite web|url=https://allendalecolumbia.org/alison-castle-91-heads-backstage-at-snl-for-new-book/|title=Allendale Columbia {{!}} Alison Castle '91 Heads Backstage at SNL for New Book|website=Allendale Columbia|access-date=2016-05-13}}

Castle studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Columbia University and received her graduate degree in photography and film from the New York University/International Center of Photography masters program. She lived in Paris for 15 years before returning to the United States and is currently living in Brooklyn.{{Cite web |last=Noble |first=Barnes & |title=Online Bookstore: Books, NOOK ebooks, Music, Movies & Toys |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=Barnes & Noble |language=en}}