EAN: 9783775756303

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Since the late 1970s the Canadian artist Jeff Wall has contributed significantly to establishing photography as an autonomous medium and is regarded as one of the key vanguards of "staged photography". Referring to his approach as "near documentary" his images resemble documentary photographs in style and manner but instead are meticulously composed multilayered compositions. Synthesizing photography with elements from other art forms such as painting cinema and literature-in a complex mode that he calls "cinematography"-his deeply intellectual work stages fictional realities memories and past experiences in an elaborate process. Featuring more than fifty works this catalogue accompanying the large-scale exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler juxtaposes Wall's iconic backlit color transparencies with his more recent black and white photographs and color C-prints revealing a variety of references in content and form. With his innovative approach to photography JEFF WALL (*1946 Vancouver) has significantly shaped the medium and its status within contemporary art. After completing his postgraduate studies in art history in the mid-1970s his new conceptual approach to large-format pictorial photography attracted attention. Each of his images is a unique composition that can take years to complete. Since the mid-1990s he has expanded his repertoire working with traditional black-and-white prints and more recently inkjet color prints. He lives and works in Vancouver.

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