Archive for the 'jeff wall' Category
We Can’t Paint has been running low on its Jeff Wall quota so when I came across this illustration on vvork I had to share it.
A man with a rifle, 2007© Georg Schnitzer and Peter Umgeher
A man with a rifle, 2000© Jeff Wall
My first post on We Can’t Paint was about Jeff Wall’s exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin and now there is a book/catalog available Feb. 1, 2008 from the exhibition titled, Jeff Wall: Exposure.
Here is the publisher’s description:
Jeff Wall: Exposure introduces four new large-scale black-and-white photographs by the Canadian artist Jeff Wall. Presented publicly for the first [...]
A couple of days ago I was having a conversation with a friend and we got to talking about photographic style. There was an agreement that Germany has a style and you could even say that there is an American style as well, but we wondered if there is a Canadian style of photography?
Before I [...]
Perhaps the one characteristic of Jeff Wall’s photography I’ve always respected is his ability to take chances. He certainly wasn’t the first to digitally manipulate photographs or enlarge their presence in the gallery, but as a viewer you cannot help but realize that Wall’s contribution to photography has in some respects set it free from [...]
