Epic and luminous, the work of Jeff Wall has overturned nearly every convention of photography. Meticulously staged and theatrical in scale, Wall’s images have more in common with the grandest history painting of the 18th century and the flickering mesmerism of cinema than with the fleeting, documentary style of much of modern photography. Forty-one works of the Vancouver-based artist, who pioneered the use of the light box as a vehicle for displaying photographs, are included in this major retrospective exhibition, previously installed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Although Wall’s images are well planned out, they hold a very documentary style of photographing. This is the type of style that I want my images to hold. His images are incredibly planned out, when it is clear that mine are not, but they have this style that I can’t help but admire. Wall said that every image that he produces is to replicate a real gesture that he saw. He has a very voyeuristic style to his images, like his subjects done necessarily know that he is present, another thing that I admire.
Gallery:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/infocus/section4/
Interview:
http://www.museomagazine.com/issue-0/jeff-wall
Website:
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Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/magazine/25Wall.t.html?_r=1
When reviewing back over my blog, I realized that these images have squares over them. The originals images do not and I even tried to reload them and they were still present. I was not quite sure what else to do.
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