Sam Taylor-Johnson (b. 1967)
Five Revolutionary Seconds VIII
C-print mounted on foamboard
10⅝ x 78⅞in. (26.9 x 200.2cm.)
Executed in 1997, this work is from an edition of three

Another from the edition is held in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.

Provenance:
Saatchi Collection, London.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 28 June 2002, lot 419.
Private Collection, London.

Exhibited:
Barcelona, La Fundacio "la Caixa", Sam Taylor-Wood, 1997 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, unpaged).

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Specialist Notes:

In Five Revolutionary Seconds VIII, we see Sam Taylor-Johnson’s interest in cinematography expressed in the medium of photography. The work is one from a series the artist began in 1995, which used a rotating camera to create long panoramic views of interiors to capture figures involved in isolated activity and was previously held in the Saatchi Collection, London. The panoramic size presents the imagery in a way which recalls an epic Greco-Roman frieze, thereby encouraging the viewer to seek out a cohesive narrative that brings together these disparate consecutive scenes. This merging of a cinematic sensibility with high-art photography would go on to become a defining influence in her practice.

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