Sam Taylor Wood is an accomplished fine art photographer and director. During her fine art period she produced a series of suspended self-portraits using a harness. One entitled ‘Bram Stockers Chair’ shows Taylor Wood floating, vampiric like into the air casting her shadow on the wall whilst her falling chair does not. A great twisting idea and one I’m gonna copy!
From this Taylor Wood moved on to working with multi-screen video with a piece titled ‘Killing Time’ showing people miming to an opera song. After working with this medium Wood worked more and more with visuals producing one of my favourite videos in a long time ‘Crying Men’ which stars some of the best Hollywood leading men, have a look at the video, I’ve remixed it, better than the youtube one!
Another favourite picture of mine comes from Sam Taylor Wood, (I must meet this woman, I hear she likes the younger man) it’s entitled Self-portrait in a single breasted suit with hare. At the age of 30 she was diagnosed with colon cancer, which she beat. Then 3 years later with breast cancer, this time needing a mastectomy. It’s a fantastically strong image of defiance and in her words, ‘The hare symbolises lust and passion, so here I am with a head of hair, in a single-breasted suit, holding on to lust and passion’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1241087/Film-maker-Sam-Taylor-Wood-42-pregnant-19-year-old-film-star-fianc.html
http://www.artnet.com/artists/sam-taylor-wood/
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article7135057.ece
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