Bordered by Buckhead skyscrapers with pumpkins on its porch steps, Jackson Fine Art welcomed collectors to the opening of Sam Taylor-Johnson’s She Was I on Thursday afternoon.
The British filmmaker known for 50 Shades of Grey kicked off her solo photography show at the residential gallery in Atlanta with her longtime friend and fellow artist, R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe.
The October sun illuminated Taylor-Johnson’s colorful portraits of Ralph Fiennes, Sienna Miller and Courtney Love in the foyer of the custom-built contemporary art bungalow, which relocated to its current space in 2023. Patrons in an adjoining room nibbled from a petal-strewn cheeseboard beneath riveting images of actors Daniel Craig, Laurence Fishburne, Hayden Christensen and Philip Seymour Hoffman, each pictured with tears in his eyes — a series of photographs known as "Crying Men." Many of the framed works were very reasonably priced, and a lovely coffee-table book, Sam Taylor-Johnson: The Self and the Portrait (released this month by Rizzoli Electa) should appeal to fans of bespoke celebrity photography.
