Ghosts VI, Sam Taylor-Wood (2008) via White Cube
this photo.
From Art Observed:
Sam Taylor-Wood first read Wuthering Heights only months before embarking on her series. One night while at her second-home in North Yorkshire, prior to her break-upwith gallery-owner Jay Jopling, she felt compelled to experience a novel she hoped to be “fantastically romantic.” After reading, Taylor-Wood felt it necessary to experience the wild landscape and the turbulent emotional weather that had inspired Brontë and so she set off on a trek across the moors with an assistant and camera equipment in the middle of February- a time of year Taylor-Wood described as prefect; “freezing cold.” Taylor-Wood and her assistant walked for hours in the unremitting sleet and winds. A moment of relief came when the pair finally reached Top Withins – the site of the action in Wuthering Heights – when the clouds parted and the sun appeared as captured in Ghosts IV.
The resulting photos are up now (but only for a few more days) at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire. Wuthering Heights wasn't my favorite on my high school summer reading list, but Wood completely captures the epic scenery in her photos. Seeing them in the context of post-breakup adds a sense of futility to the hopeless romanticism.
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