Tag: Jeff Wall

  • 12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot

    12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot

    12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot

    For a land so deeply entrenched with history and conflict, Israel is not an easy subject to approach in a photography project, especially from a single standpoint. Born out of an idea by Frédéric Brenner, a French photographer who has long explored Jewish

    via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/02/a-new-collaboration-sees-twelve-photographers-turn-their-lens-on-israel/

    ‘This Place’ is the title given to the internationally touring exhibition that presents the work of twelve artists who were commissioned to research and work in Israel and the West Bank, created primarily between 2009 and 2012 by Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall and Nick Waplington. Together, they act as a heterogeneous narrative of a conflicted, paradoxical and deeply resonant place.

  • Jeff Wall Photograph Fetches Artist Record $3.6 Million at Auction

    Jeff Wall Photograph Fetches Artist Record $3.6 Million at Auction | PDNPulse

    A 1992 photograph by Jeff Wall sold for $3,666,500 yesterday evening during a Post-War and Contemporary art auction at Christie’s in New York City. The previous record sale for a work by Jeff Wall was $1.1 million. The work “Dead Troops Talk (A vision aft

    via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/05/jeff-wall-photograph-fetches-artist-record-3-6-million-at-auction.html

    A 1992 photograph by Jeff Wall sold for $3,666,500 yesterday evening during a Post-War and Contemporary art auction at Christie’s in New York City. The previous record sale for a work by Jeff Wall was $1.1 million.

  • Jeff Wall – The Luminist

    Jeff Wall – The Luminist

    NYT Magazine:

    One thing that Wall knew for certain when he took up the profession in the late 1970s is that he would not become a photojournalistic hunter. Educated as an art historian, he aspired instead to make photographs that could be constructed and experienced the way paintings are. “Most photographs cannot get looked at very often,” he told me. “They get exhausted. Great photographers have done it on the fly. It doesn’t happen that often. I just wasn’t interested in doing that. I didn’t want to spend my time running around trying to find an event that could be made into a picture that would be good.” He also disliked the way photographs were typically exhibited as small prints. “I don’t like the traditional 8 by 10,” he said. “They were done that size as displays for prints to run in books. It’s too shrunken, too compressed. When you’re making things to go on a wall, as I do, that seems too small.” The art that he liked best, from the full-length portraits of Velázquez and Manet to the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock and the floor pieces of Carl Andre, engaged the viewer on a lifelike human scale. They could be walked up to (or, in Andre’s case, onto) and moved away from. They held their own, on a wall or in a room. “If painting can be that scale and be effective, then a photograph ought to be effective at that size, too,” he concluded.

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