Cinematic scenes with painterly compositions that place contemporary photography within the broader canon of art history.
Since the late 1970s, Canadian photographer Jeff Wall has made significant contributions to establishing photography as an autonomous medium. He is considered the founder of "staged" photography and generates mostly large-format photographs―often inspired by literature, film and art history―composed in a multilayered and subtle way from a multitude of individual shots. Wall makes a distinction between his documentary still life photos and his “cinematographic” pictures, the latter of which take months or even years to complete. His contemporary genre scenes invoke famous works by Hokusai, Manet, Kafka, Ellison and others.
Among the more than 50 works collected in the catalog of the large-scale solo exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler are Wall’s iconic large-format slides in light boxes, black-and-white photographs and color photographic prints. His most recent images, representing the entire spectrum of his oeuvre, enter into a dialogue with works from the time of Wall’s beginnings as an artist and reveal a wide range of references in terms of content and form. These new works will be on display and published in book form for the first time.
Jeff Wall
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
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Author: Jeff Wall, Martin Schwander
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Publication Date:
2024
Print Length: 248 pages
Language: English
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Selected Books by This Photographer
Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996-2013
2015 - Kunsthaus Bregenz/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)
2010 - Phaidon Press
Jean-Francois Chevrier, Thierry Duve, Boris Groys
Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné 1978-2004
2005 - Steidl
Jeff Wall, Jean-François Chévrier, Heidi Naef, Theodora Vischer
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