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From: sobriquet on 21 Apr 2010 23:45 On 22 apr, 04:44, Paul Furman <pa...@-edgehill.net> wrote: > Dudley Hanks wrote: > > Now, there's a payday ... > > >http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+word... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wall > Apparently most of his stuff is staged 'cinematography' to look like > street shooting. He's a long time name I guess, originally an art > critic/writer, then started doing these in the '70's with references to > art history philosophical topics like this one is about the subject > having their face turned away so you imagine what his expression is. > Similar to the guy in the crazy room with all the light bulbs in the > link below. > > Interesting.http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=8756... > I might spend a museum admission to see them <g>. The Contacts photography documentary also contains a 13 minute episode where Jeff Wall explains some of his work. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5499496
From: Dudley Hanks on 22 Apr 2010 02:35 "Paul Furman" <paul-@-edgehill.net> wrote in message news:hqod64$dnt$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Dudley Hanks wrote: >> Now, there's a payday ... >> >> http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+words/2927503/story.html > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wall > Apparently most of his stuff is staged 'cinematography' to look like > street shooting. He's a long time name I guess, originally an art > critic/writer, then started doing these in the '70's with references to > art history philosophical topics like this one is about the subject having > their face turned away so you imagine what his expression is. Similar to > the guy in the crazy room with all the light bulbs in the link below. > > Interesting. > http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=87560962&blogID=236192673&MyToken=bf0b50a5-fd20-420c-8318-9ee943fdbaab > I might spend a museum admission to see them <g>. And, here I've been using the turned face technique for Mich's traffic check shots without realizing it's an actual artzy technique. I'll start the bidding at $750,000 ... :) Take Care, Dudley
From: Bruce on 22 Apr 2010 07:58 On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:44:16 -0700, Paul Furman <paul-@-edgehill.net> wrote: >Dudley Hanks wrote: >> Now, there's a payday ... >> >> http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+words/2927503/story.html > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wall >Apparently most of his stuff is staged 'cinematography' to look like >street shooting. He's a long time name I guess, originally an art >critic/writer, then started doing these in the '70's with references to >art history philosophical topics like this one is about the subject >having their face turned away so you imagine what his expression is. >Similar to the guy in the crazy room with all the light bulbs in the >link below. > >Interesting. >http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=87560962&blogID=236192673&MyToken=bf0b50a5-fd20-420c-8318-9ee943fdbaab >I might spend a museum admission to see them <g>. I went to see a Jeff Wall exhibition at the Tate Modern in London several years ago and found his work inspiring. The exhibition consisted of street and domestic interior scenes which were mostly displayed as very large backlit Cibachrome transparencies of the highest quality. Here is a link: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/ I enjoyed it so much I returned for a second visit so I could stay longer - my first visit was on the way to an appointment in the City, ironically to discuss a streetscape for a corporate client that was eventually presented as a backlit Cibachrome transparency. ;-) There were several images that I thought were of the highest calibre. However, I don't think the one of the artist drawing the severed arm is of similar calibre. Perhaps the value of the image is in its rarity - given that Jeff Wall images perhaps don't often come up for sale - and in the celebrity of the photographer, rather than in any intrinsic artistic value. It is a very careful composition, beautifully lit, but it doesn't have the detail and atmosphere of a "typical" Jeff Wall image, if of course there can ever be such a thing. There is one aspect that does make it quite attractive, and that is the "picture within a picture". There is a certain fascination to this, in similar vein to the "play within a play" that is so beloved of certain playwrights.
From: whisky-dave on 22 Apr 2010 09:03 "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:hqn3ti02rok(a)news4.newsguy.com... > On 4/21/2010 8:31 AM, whisky-dave wrote: >> "Nervous Nick"<nervous.nick(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:103af738-4eb1-4432-8dc1-8bb9344746fd(a)b33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... >> On Apr 20, 1:03 pm, George Kerby<ghost_top...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> On 4/20/10 12:43 PM, in article >>> WImdnfpeYZ1CelDWnZ2dnUVZ_jidn...(a)giganews.com, "Frank ess" >>> >>> >>> >>> <fr...(a)fshe2fs.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Tzortzakakis Dimitris wrote: >>>>> ? "Bruce"<docnews2...(a)gmail.com> ?????? ??? ?????? >>>>> news:o9krs5p6muj0b1fk6c427j440utu6p5aie(a)4ax.com... >>>>>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:14 GMT, "Dudley Hanks" >>>>>> <dha...(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote: >>> >>>>>>> Now, there's a payday ... >>> >>>>>>> http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+word... >>>>>>> 503/story.html >>> >>>>>> So many words, yet no sign of the image that is being discussed. >>>>>> :-( >>>>> Probably, they will put it in a gallery where you'll have to pay an >>>>> entrance fee to see it, or it will end in a private collection... >>> >>>> http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5315268 >>> >>> A million bucks for a snapshot?!? >>> >>> I'm not 'buying' it... >> >> }Exactly my sentiment. >> >> Well I'd buy it if I knew I could sell it at a profit, but I don't know >> anyone daft enough. >> >> >> }The image contains zero compelling attributes and quite a few annoying >> }ones. >> >> }It's not even a very good snapshot. >> >> }I had to check the date on that to make sure it wasn't 1 April. >> >> }Sheesh. >> >> I know what you mean, I know someone doing a MSc in photo illustrations >> I bet they can give me an academic reason why it's worth so much. I was right here's the reply. "it's Jeff Wall! he is a superstar photographer....and you have to pay for that! I don't know about this picture...but he has got some amazing work. Did you know that once he spent 3 years to compose one of his pictures? He composes his images digitally and most of them are scenes that never existed in reality...an interesting guy :-)"
From: Bruce on 21 Apr 2010 05:50
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:42:27 -0400, tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:08:01 +0100, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> >wrote: > >>On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:14 GMT, "Dudley Hanks" >><dhanks(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote: >>> >>>Now, there's a payday ... >>> >>>http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Photo+worth+million+words/2927503/story.html >>> >> >> >>So many words, yet no sign of the image that is being discussed. :-( > >An apt description of your posts. So many words, but no sign of a >photograph. Long may it remain so! If I ever get desperate enough to have even the slightest interest in what you or any of your incompetent "friends" think of my work, I will have given up photography for ever. |