The photograph I’d take home from Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “She Was I” show, now on display at Jackson Fine Art through Jan. 23, hangs just inside the gallery door — center left. In “Phoenix, Rothko,” a girl stands in a room lit to look like a Rothko painting, her red hair set against stacked, glowing color blocks. The girl is Taylor-Johnson’s daughter, Jessie Phoenix Jopling. The photo, though, is also a portrait of the woman behind the camera: a lifelong Rothko fan who has spent her career making light, and the rules, bend to her will.
