Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall
Jeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSAis a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay and postmodern and industrial...
Jeff Wall quotes about
excuse-you giving might
If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
before-and-after invisible
A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.
agency traffic heavy
Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.
technology hands use
One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.
reality light giving
Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form Without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death. The truth is the light and light is the truth.
decision doe judgment
Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.
photography pitfalls definitions
IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,
directors film film-directors
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.