Ben Millar Cole – After Wall: The Wood Wide Web and AI Art

  After Wall: The Wood Wide Web and AI Art  By Ben Millar Cole   In 1993, Jeff Wall meticulously reworked Hokusai’s famous 19th century woodblock print A Sudden Gust of Wind at Ejri as a large-scale photograph, spending more than a year in his local vicinity constructing scenes and orchestrating actors to produce a […]

Sergio Purtell: Love’s Labour Review by Zak Dimitrov

“One can use a camera to explore or utilise philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis and what not and this is wonderful as it broadens the scope of what is achievable with this tool. It tends to be forgotten that this is not, however, the be-all and end-all technique”   When one thinks of photographic projects, which more […]

Jeff Wall: Pictures Like Poems

Discover what inspires and motivates one of the modern masters of photography, Canadian Jeff Wall, who here discusses a selection of his impressive photographs and their often meticulous compositions.  

Los Angeles Plays Itself: Anthony Hernandez at SFMOMA

“No, Anthony Hernandez’ sober look at his hometown reminds us that Los Angeles is not the most photographed city in the world, but rather, one of the most culturally, economically and racially divided places in America.” It often said that Los Angeles is the most photographed city on earth. It’s not true. It is also […]

Evocations of the Everyday: The Street Pictures of Jeff Wall (2009)

To combine cinematography with photography, Wall took his camera out of the studio along with lights and actors with the intention ofmaking pictures with the look of films from the 1970s that would lend a sharp, documentary style to his pieces. By Graham W. Bell In 1982, Wall took his photography to the street. Combining the aesthetic […]

ASX.TV: Jeff Wall – “Meet Jeff Wall” (2011)

Meet Jeff Wall In presence of Joël Benzakin and Hans De Wolf Monday 23.05.2011 19:30 Centre for Fine Arts Rencontre avec Jeff Wall en présence de Joël Benzakin et Hans De Wolf Lundi 23.05.2011 19:30 Palais des Beaux-Arts Ontmoeting met Jeff Wall In aanwezigheid van Joël Benzakin en Hans De Wolf Maandag 23.05.2011 19:30 Paleis […]

Paul Graham – ‘The Unreasonable Apple’ (2010)

“Perhaps here we have stumbled upon a partial, but nonetheless astonishing description of the creative act at the heart of serious photography: nothing less than the measuring and folding of the cloth of time itself.” By Paul Graham This month I read a review in a leading US Art Magazine of a Jeff Wall survey […]