Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood (born March 4, 1967) is a film maker, photographer and conceptual artist. She was born to a yoga teacher and astrologist mother and father who was a biker. She studied at Goldsmiths College, nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 and won the Illy Cafe Prize for Most Promising Young Artist at the 47th Venice Biennale. Her debut feature film was the 2009 'Nowhere Boy', a film based on the childhood experiences go the Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon.

Sam Taylor-Wood is best known for making the film 'Still Life' (2001) which sees a bowl of fruit decay as time passes.

Crying Men is a series of portraits of hollywood actors taken by Taylor-Wood where the actor must cry for the camera and show their emotions, actors include Daniel Craig, Jude Law, Robin Williams, Tim Roth, Hayden Christiansen, Laurence Fishburne etc.

Gracefully Suspended sees Taylor-Wood floating in the middle of the room as she explores notions of weight and gravity. Taylor-Wood was being supported by strings which you cannot see.

The image of Taylor-Wood and Henry Bond titled 26 October 1993 was a recreation of the portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono made by the photographer Annie Leibovitz which was taken a few hours before Lennon was assassinated in 1980.

Bibliography

http://photoslaves.com/crying-men-by-sam-taylor-wood/

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/sam-taylorwood-gracefully

http://theworldofphotographers.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/sam-taylor-wood-artist/

http://whitecube.com/artists/sam_taylor-wood/