jeff wall to wall...
jeff wall...(for you P..) is a canadian photographer who has an exhibition showing in the tate modern at the moment. He flies in the face of the conventional idea of photogrpahy of capturing a moment in time, an event of reality. He does this by taking hunderds of different photos of one place/scenario/event and amalogamting them into one image. He raises interesting questions of what is reality? Can we ever take a true image? Can we know truth...ha ha the old chestnut!!
This is my favourite. The things with this one is its disappointing that it's not a real event, and i desperately want it to be. It's a really great exhibition check out the work on the tate site: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/rooms/default.shtm You can then go through all the rooms onlne and look at different pieces and read the explanations...:)
posted by becci brown @ 11:45 am
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3 Comments:
Cool!
Liked some of the pictures but i don't understand why he takes lots over a period of time and then puts them together as one photo. Would it not be possiable to set it up as one photo and take it, or am i showing my ignorance?
GA
a couple of the photos are just a staged event...i think the whole point of taking lots and lots of photos is all to do with his concept-challenging the notion of what a photo is - which is the very idea that you have suggested-just one shot. Also asking the question about reality and our concept of reality.
whos GA?
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