Jeff Wall - Diagonal Composition, 1993. Transparency in lightbox  Artist Statement: What interested me … was to make pictures that had specific relationships with certain kinds of painting … certain kinds of cinema … and certain kinds of photography … and to find a way of hybridising all that I admired about all those things … I thought, for my purposes, that painting needed to be more psychologically intense, cinema needed to be ‘arrested’ (according to the concepts from Barthes and Benjamin), and photography needed to be made more viable at the scale of the human body, the scale of natural vision, a scale that painting had mastered.
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Jeff Wall - Diagonal Composition, 1993. Transparency in lightbox 

Artist Statement:

What interested me … was to make pictures that had specific relationships with certain kinds of painting … certain kinds of cinema … and certain kinds of photography … and to find a way of hybridising all that I admired about all those things … I thought, for my purposes, that painting needed to be more psychologically intense, cinema needed to be ‘arrested’ (according to the concepts from Barthes and Benjamin), and photography needed to be made more viable at the scale of the human body, the scale of natural vision, a scale that painting had mastered.

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