Sam Taylor Wood, who was born in 4 March, 1967 in Croydon,
England is an English photographer and film maker. She began exhibiting her
fine art photography in the early – 1990s. One alliance with Henry Bond, titled
26 October 1993, featured Bond and Taylor Wood reinterpreting the roles of Yoko
Ono and John Lennon by photographer Annie Liebovitz only a few hours before
Lennon was assassinated in 1980.
Taylor Wood’s work examines the split between being and
appearance, often placing her human subjects – either singly or in groups – in
situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in
conflict. Her languid and silent film portrait of David Beckham, for example,
which was shot in a single take, offers a serene alternative to this most
intensively photographed celebrity.
Taylor-Wood has also explored notions of weight and gravity
in elegiac, poised photographs and films such as Ascension (2003) and a series
of self-portraits (Self Portrait Suspended I - VIII) that depict the artist
floating in mid-air without the aid of any visible support.
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