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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- How much does Jeff Wall leave to chance? And what is the subtle difference between fiction and the imaginary?
Wall (1948) is eager to challenge preconceived notions and expectations, also about his own work. Days before the opening of the exhibition Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996-2013, the artist and curator of photography Hripsimé Visser stroll through the exhibition and discuss clichés, fact and fiction around his work. This video introduces the exhibition at the Stedelijk and casts a light on Wall's sometimes mystical and at the same time monumental photography and method which moves between reminiscence, mise en scene and realism.
Credits
A film by Jeroen van der Poel & Robbie Schweiger
Commisioned by the Education Department Stedelijk Museum
Direction and camera: Jeroen van der Poel
Production and research: Robbie Schweiger
Thanks to: Jeff Wall, Hripsimé Visser, Rixt Hulshoff Pol, Alex Clarke, Emanuel Hoffmann Stiftung, Glenstone Foundation, Washington, Musée d'art contemporaine de Montreal, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
I still remember standing in front of these photographs and actually feeling the gratitude of choosing to become a photographer. To be a painter, not with the brush but the mind and having this little magic box that will do all the things for you
***** Exactly, but without the camera you wouldn't be able to capture this picture in such purity that it delivers. You simply have to look, aim and push that button. If anything comes close to homage and honoring your muses, a camera is the greatest tool as it delivers an instant depiction of them stripped from lies and anything else that you would add in poetry, painting or sculpture. The only thing that is a lie - or better said, what remains hidden - is what you choose to keep out of the frame and whatever it is that your mind comes up with in an attempt to give this image meaning. It is a dark mirror through which viewers, including the photographer, will only see another version of themselves.
That being said, photography like Jeff's is already a distortion and closer to painting, as in he chooses to arrange his photographs so and so but I respect this approach as well. The things I said above are just my view on photography, I was gonna add that my photographs are a direct depiction of reality and his are more a (re)construction of that wouldn't be true as all photographs are a creative process so they are ALL constructed images, no matter how close or distanced from reality they seem to be.
What I will add is that photography seems very insignificant and that's what charms me the most about it. It is something amazingly simple that most of us have grown up with by now, it doesn't urge you to be an artist (read: make progress etc.) like most other mediums which lends you the freedom to go your own way. There's no need to be intellectual with photography, never has been, all you need is a camera and you're good to go
very nice video! thanks very much!
soaring
Yah neh...
Kinda cringe
No it isn’t