ITAP 1 Moving Image

ITAP Moving Image 1

The Work Of Sam Taylor Wood

1)    List two specific key relationships between Sam Taylor Wood's photography and film work?

Sam Taylor Wood's endeavors to make either medium, film or photography, convey more than the platform is known to support, using split screens for film, or sound and multiple images for her photography, to convey the narrative of her pieces. They have an intense intellectual narrative that can be challenging, presuming you have the will to follow them.

2)    How does the use of multi-screen installation in her work reflect narrative?

        It delineates personal boundaries and reflects individuality, in positive and negative        

        ways, while making statements about relativity from one person’s world to another’s. 

3)    What other photographers use film as an integral part of their work. List two with examples?

     Sam O’hare and Eija-Liisa Ahtila. O’hare is a photographer who has found more success     

     with film. He uses miniaturization effects and post production techniques, to producing    

     interesting films, Sandpit, which illustrate human behaviour in a different way from 

     convention. 

    Eija-Liisa Ahtila has a similar background to Taylor-Wood, studying sculpture at art   

    school, then moved onto photography and film. She also use multiple screens with moving 

    image and has directed a film Where is Where. Her work is also very intellectual, but does 

    seem to have aesthetic appeal.