Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sam Taylor-Johnson was born in Croydon on March 4 1967. She first started working in photography, video and film in the early 1990's.

One collaboration that she was part of was with a photographer named Henry Bond. It featured Bond and Taylor Johnson reprising the roles of Yoko Ono and John Lennon in a imitation photo-portrait produced by photographer Annie Leibovitz a few hours before Lennon was assassinated in 1980.

In 1994, Taylor-Johnson won the Illy Cafe Prize for the most promising young artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale.

In 2000, Taylor-Johnson produced a wraparound photomural of the department store Selfridges in London.

2014 saw a new photographic exhibition by Taylor-Johnson at The Saatchi Gallery.

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Sam Taylor-Johnson presents time-lapses of decaying subjects over a period of time, in her case, these would have taken weeks or months to complete with a photo being taken every day in order to show the rabbit decaying. I think that this is quite interesting because the rabbit decays, but the peach has not decayed at all. I also like the way that the time-lapse is so smooth, that when the decay is occurring, the decay is one movement almost like the rabbit is melting down with the flies swarming the subject. I believe that this would have taken a pro longed length of time, because the decaying process takes a very long time, and even for the decay to start to show. Its a lengthy process. I think that I could try and do something similar to this by time-lapsing the decay of a vase of flowers or an orange over a period of time.

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Sam Taylor-Johnson also presents time in still images by freezing a subject matter in time with the use of a fast shutter speed. I think that this image is intriguing because there are many questions in my head that need answering but I cannot seem to work out the answers to them when I view the image. The main questions I have are, how is the subject floating? is the subject laying on something? has Sam Taylor-Johnson edited this image?

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