Main entry:

Jeff Wall (Fondation Beyeler)

Title & Author:

Jeff Wall / edited by Martin Schwander for the Fondation Beyeler ; translations, John Ormrod, Anthony Mahler.

Publication:

Riehen/Basel : Fondation Beyeler ; Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2024]
©2024

Description:

238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, from January 28-April 21, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235).
Foreword and acknowledgments -- Photograph. picture. tableau. an introduction / Martin Schwander -- 11 rooms / commentary by Jeff Wall -- "I think of my pictures as having scenarios - but they are essentially unwritten ones" : Jeff Walls in conversation with Martin Schwander -- Incongruent counterparts : on Jeff Wall's diptychs and triptychs / Ralph Ubl -- Exhibited works -- Selected bibliography -- Principal exhibitions.

Summary:

"Since the late 1970s, the Canadian artist Jeff Wall has contributed significantly to establishing photography as an autonomous medium, and is regarded as one of the key vanguards of "staged photography". Referring to his approach as "near documentary", his images resemble documentary photographs in style and manner, but instead are meticulously composed, multilayered compositions. Synthesizing photography with elements from other art forms such as painting, cinema, and literature--in a complex mode that he calls "cinematography"--his deeply intellectual work stages fictional realities, memories and past experiences in an elaborate process. Featuring more than fifty works, this catalogue accompanying the large-scale exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler juxtaposes Wall's iconic backlit color transparencies with his more recent black and white photographs and color C-prints, revealing a variety of references in content and form." -- Publisher's description

ISBN:

9783906053790 (English museum edition)
3906053792 (English museum edition)
9783775756303 (English trade edition)
3775756302 (English trade edition)
(German museum edition)
9783906053783
(German trade edition)
9783775756297

Subject:

Wall, Jeff, 1946- Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic 21st century Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique 21e siècle Expositions.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Wall, Jeff, 1946- writer of added commentary, interviewee.
Schwander, Martin, 1949- editor, writer of added commentary, interviewer.
Ubl, Ralph, writer of added commentary.
Ormrod, John (Translator), translator.
Mahler, Anthony, translator.
Fondation Beyeler, issuing body, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319659
Call No.: 319659
Copy: 1
Status: Available