Jeff Wall: Meister der inszenierten Fotografie - Licht, Komposition und Cinematografie in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Bildband zur großen Ausstellung der Fondation Beyeler - Hardcover

Wall, Jeff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775756299 ISBN 13: 9783775756297

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, 2024

Synopsis

Jeff Wall has contributed significantly to the establishment of photography as an independent art form since the late 1970s. He is considered the founder of »staged« photography: his motifs initially look like snapshots, but his mostly large-format photographs composed from a multitude of individual shots are predominantly fully constructed image worlds. By combining photography with elements of painting, cinema and literature - a procedure he himself describes as "cinematographic" - he reinstages fictional realities, memories of experienced and seen in an elaborate process.
Among the more than fifty works gathered in the catalogue for the large-scale solo exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, there are both Wall's iconic large-screen slides in light boxes as well as black-and-white photographs and coloured photo prints. These newer, representing the entire range of his work enter into a dialogue with works from the time of Wall's artistic beginnings and reveal diverse content and formal references.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3775756299
• ISBN 13: 9783775756297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Schwander Für Die Fondation Beyeler Riehen/Basel