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According to the publisher: “First and foremost, Canadian artist Jeff Wall is a storyteller. His large-scale Cibachrome photographs, often staged with actors in elaborate, cinematic settings, present complex and dense 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, and to lose oneself in the bewildering whirlwind of meticulously crafted details. He draws inspiration from the narrative strategies of 19th-century painting, the art of seduction in advertising, and the dramatic use of props and gestures in cinema to tell his own, sometimes mysterious, stories. This comprehensive monograph also features a new series of black-and-white photographs. They mark a new phase 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-scale Cibachrome photographs, often staged with actors in elaborate, cinematic settings, present complex and dense 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, and to lose oneself in the bewildering whirlwind of meticulously crafted details. He draws inspiration from the narrative strategies of 19th-century painting, the art of seduction in advertising, and the dramatic use of props and gestures in cinema to tell his own, sometimes mysterious, stories. This comprehensive monograph also features a new series of black-and-white photographs. They mark a new phase 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