Date: 2004
Title: A View From An Apartment
I love Jeff Walls work. I love how his images just seem to be snapshots of daily mundane life and yet if you pay a little attention you start to notice how off this image really is. How outside the window is perfectly exposed, how the girl who is reading is lit up yet the lamp is not on, etc. His mashing of lord knows how many images to create this one, simple, image creates a kind of irony almost and a definite commentary on the technological abilities of this day and age.
I like this image you've chosen to write about - and that you noticed the lamp out. It's one of these more mundane Wall images - but speaks to him thinking about photographs, how they function, what we expect to see.
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty interesting quote by Wall:
"When you’re looking at a picture you are feeling that you are really seeing something, seeing it in a way you can’t see it in the world itself ... [B]ut it is more interesting to depict something in a way that the viewer feels he or she is really seeing, but at the same time suggest that something significant isn’t being seen – that the act of picturing creates an unseen as well as a seen."
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wall-a-view-from-an-apartment-t12219/text-summary
Thanks!