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Jeff Wall by Kerry Brougher; Jeff Wall; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.); Mito Geijutsukan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Standing almost 14 inches wide by 20 inches tall, this exquisitely produced volume affords readers an unprecedented opportunity to study the work of the important Canadian artist/photographer Jeff Wall at the large scale for which his work is known. Informed by conceptual art, historical painting and avant-garde film, Wall began to produce large-format color transparencies, presented on light-boxes, in the late 1970s--a format that has become strongly identified with his work. This volume includes recent examples of this work, as well as large black-and-white prints--a format first incorporated into Wall's practice in 1996. Wall divides his photographs into two categories: documentary and cinematographic. A documentary photograph for Wall is tied to the traditional understanding of this term--a depiction of a specific time and place, without any overt manipulation on his part. A cinematographic photograph involves some form of intervention or restructuring by the artist. This category has ranged from slight movements of elements within a given situation to more elaborate approaches that involve the construction of sets and other aspects of stagecraft. Wall is best known for his cin

Who reads Jeff Wall?

Author

Kerry Brougher; Jeff Wall; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.); Mito Geijutsukan

Publisher

Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art ; Zurich ; New York: Scalo ; New York: Distributed in North America by D.A.P.

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780914357476

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Photography, Arts