JEFF WALL - Kerry Brougher
According to the publisher: "First and foremost, Canadian artist Jeff Wall is a storyteller. His large cibachrome photographs, often staged with actors on elaborate, cinematic sets, present dense, complex scenarios that explore the intertwined realities of life and culture in the late 20th century. His works invite the viewer to examine them in detail, to decipher surreal and melodramatic plots, to get lost in the bewildering swirl of meticulously crafted details. He draws on the narrative strategies of 19th-century painting, the art of seduction in advertising and the dramatic use of props and gestures in film to tell his own, sometimes mysterious, stories. This comprehensive monograph also includes a new series of black & white photographs. They mark a new stage in Wall's work, an ironic and unsettling exploration of the conventions of documentary photography."
Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and Scalo Verlag, 1997
162 pages
30 × 29.2 cm
ISBN: 3-931141-53-5
According to the publisher: "First and foremost, Canadian artist Jeff Wall is a storyteller. His large cibachrome photographs, often staged with actors on elaborate, cinematic sets, present dense, complex scenarios that explore the intertwined realities of life and culture in the late 20th century. His works invite the viewer to examine them in detail, to decipher surreal and melodramatic plots, to get lost in the bewildering swirl of meticulously crafted details. He draws on the narrative strategies of 19th-century painting, the art of seduction in advertising and the dramatic use of props and gestures in film to tell his own, sometimes mysterious, stories. This comprehensive monograph also includes a new series of black & white photographs. They mark a new stage in Wall's work, an ironic and unsettling exploration of the conventions of documentary photography."
Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and Scalo Verlag, 1997
162 pages
30 × 29.2 cm
ISBN: 3-931141-53-5
According to the publisher: "First and foremost, Canadian artist Jeff Wall is a storyteller. His large cibachrome photographs, often staged with actors on elaborate, cinematic sets, present dense, complex scenarios that explore the intertwined realities of life and culture in the late 20th century. His works invite the viewer to examine them in detail, to decipher surreal and melodramatic plots, to get lost in the bewildering swirl of meticulously crafted details. He draws on the narrative strategies of 19th-century painting, the art of seduction in advertising and the dramatic use of props and gestures in film to tell his own, sometimes mysterious, stories. This comprehensive monograph also includes a new series of black & white photographs. They mark a new stage in Wall's work, an ironic and unsettling exploration of the conventions of documentary photography."
Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and Scalo Verlag, 1997
162 pages
30 × 29.2 cm
ISBN: 3-931141-53-5