Sam Taylor-Johnson

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Sam Taylor-Wood with husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson (2010)

Sam Taylor-Johnson (* 4. March 1967 in London as Samantha Louise Taylor ) is a British film director , photographer , artist and musician . Until she married the actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson , she was called Sam Taylor-Wood .

Career

Taylor-Wood studied art at the Hastings School of Art and began her career as a sculptor before turning to photography and film. Her first film 16 mm was made in 1993 . After creating her multiscreen video Killing Time in 1994, she became increasingly involved with video art . For the video installation Third Party (1999–2000) she worked with the singer Marianne Faithfull and the actor Ray Winstone . In 2001 she appeared in her short film Pietà together with Robert Downey junior .

Taylor-Wood had solo exhibitions at the White Cube in London (1995, 2001), the Kunsthalle Zürich (1997), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC (1999), the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid (2000). , the Center National de la Photographie in Paris (2001) and the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (2002).

In 1997 she received the Illy Cafe Prize for Most Promising Young Artist at the Venice Biennale . In 1998 she was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize .

As a musician, she released the single Love To Love You, Baby under the pseudonym Kiki Kokova in collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys . She also later worked repeatedly with the Pet Shop Boys. In 2008, the joint single I'm in Love with a German Film Star was released on the German techno label Kompakt .

After a few short films, she made her directorial debut in a feature film in 2009 with the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy . In 2015, Fifty Shades of Gray was her adaptation of the erotic novel Shades of Gray . The series Gypsy followed in 2017 , for which she is responsible from executive producer and whose first two episodes she directed.

Private life

In the early 1990s she was in a relationship with the artist Henry Bond .

His marriage to the art dealer Jay Jopling in 1997 resulted in two daughters (* 1997 and 2005). In September 2008, the couple announced their separation.

In 2009 she met the 23-year-old actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson while shooting the film Nowhere Boy and began a relationship with him. They married on June 21, 2012 and both officially took the name Taylor-Johnson. The relationship resulted in two daughters (* 2010 and 2012).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1996: Misfit (short film)
  • 1997: Pet Shop Boys - Somewhere: Pet Shop Boys In Concert (director of the backdrop projection)
  • 2001: Pietà (short film)
  • 2006: Destricted ( Death Valley segment )
  • 2008: Love You More (short film)
  • 2009: Nowhere Boy
  • 2011: James Bond Supports International Women's Day (short film)
  • 2011: REM - Überlin (music video)
  • 2015: Fifty Shades of Gray
  • 2017: Gypsy (TV series)

Discography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
I'm In Love With A German Film Star
  FR 95 December 06, 2008 (1 week)
  • 2003: Kiki Kokova - Love To Love You, Baby (Lucky Art)
  • 2008: Sam Taylor-Wood & Pet Shop Boys - I'm In Love With A German Film Star ( Kompakt Pop )

Catalogs

  • Michael Bracewell, Jeremy Millar and Sam Taylor-Wood: Sam Taylor-Wood. Gerhard Steidl, 2008, ISBN 978-1-85332-228-0
  • Jake Chapman, Michael O'Pray: Sam Taylor-Wood. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, 2000, ISBN 978-1-901066-01-2

Web links

Commons : Sam Taylor-Johnson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Sam Taylor-Wood at rogallery.com, accessed May 20, 2014
  2. ^ Henry Bond's morning-after movies at dazeddigital.com, accessed May 20, 2014
  3. ↑ Sam Taylor-Wood: the bigger picture at telegraph.co.uk, accessed May 20, 2014
  4. ^ Art's golden couple Sam Taylor-Wood and Jay Jopling split after 11 years of marriage at dailymail.co.uk, accessed May 20, 2014
  5. ↑ Sam Taylor-Wood, 45, and her toyboy lover Aaron Johnson, 22, tie the knot at dailymail.co.uk, accessed May 20, 2014
  6. ↑ Chart sources: I'm In Love With A German Film Star at lescharts.com, accessed on May 20, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Taylor-Johnson, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Samantha (maiden name); Taylor-Wood, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British director, photographer, artist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH London