"Amateur actors play the odd assortment of rural and city characters, surprised by the forces of nature". This image required over 100 photographs, taken over the course of more than a year, to achieve a seamless montage that gives the illusion of capturing a real moment in time.
This image fascinates me, once i found out the effort put into it. I find when looking at it you almost see it come alive and happen, visualising the paper flying further and further away. This was the first image which really allowed me to see how once image can perhaps display a flow of time (rather than having to show a sequence to show this). This one image really shows a great deal of motion and movement. Although digitally enhanced, and very mush so set up and staged, i relate this this to notions of life, and feel as though just because its not spontaneous and real, it can still has the same effect if it were. It is just because i am educated towards the fact that this image has been set up, i am supposed to change my feelings towards it?
As a carry on to my experimenting, i will also intend on producing single images to show a flow of time.
(Image from tate.org.uk)
More examples of Jeff Wall's work- a little more relevant to my work.
(Insomnia 1994)
'Insomnia' shows Wall's cinematic tendency in his work, particularly in domestic situations and settings, creating a sort of claustrophobic and alienated fantasy world, almost looking like a film set. These works have been of inspiration to me, and where i am working with isolation and temporality, these images seem very relevant.
(A ventriloquist at a birthday party in October 1947 1990)
(Reference: Burnett, Craig. (2005) "Jeff Wall". London: Tate Publishing)
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