Friday, May 13, 2011

Crying Men - Sam Taylor Wood

"...Crying Men, is a treatise on the theme of sadness. Her new series of photographs in Crying Men attempts to capture the moment between the real and the unreal, the imitation and the authentic. By her use of celebrity actors as models, the viewer debates whether their tears of sadness (and therefore their emotions) are genuine. If the models were anonymous the question wouldn’t arise. It is a subtle challenge and typical of Taylor-Wood’s increasing degree of maturity as a visual artist..."


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Sam Taylor-Wood - Daniel Craig
Sam Taylor-Wood - Jude Law
Sam Taylor-Wood - Hanging shot

(All images taken from Google Images)

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