Peter Kane – http://www.source.ie/learning/approaches/is43kanpet01.xml – vintage photo held in left bottom corner of frame of rephotographed site. Photographer’s hand is visible and creates the connection across time. Focus is on the vintage image while the rephotographed site is blurred. This renders the ‘present’ of little consequence and focuses all attention on the past, removing the sense of place.
Shimon Attie – Writing on the Wall – pre WWII photos light-projected onto buildings in the Jewish quarter (Scheunenviertel) in Berlin at the actual or approximate addresses. This series is so creative. It marries past and present in a very poignant way, testing one’s memory or post-memory. The projections are superimposed onto the walls, doorways or windows of the buildings in such a way that they look as if they belong there. One is literally looking at the intersection of history – the ghosts from the past with the vacuous present.
Jeff Wall – I have done a few write ups on Wall’s work in previous modules so won’t add anything extra here:
- Jeff Wall;
- Research point: Jeff Wall, Insomnia (1994);
- Art in the Twenty-first Century : Vancouver;
- Jeff Wall: In order to make a picture.
Luc Delahaye – Prix Pictet prize (power) – uses large format camera in similar fashion to Wall, but keeps a distance between himself and his subjects. The photos have the look of tableaux as they show a fair amount of detail. His A Lunch at the Belvedere of the World Economic Forum immediately reminded me of the painting of the Last Supper by da Vinci. The symmetry of the image with the two chandeliers suspended from the ceiling on the edges of the frame and the lighting of the scene with one half of the room in shadow and the other backlit by the window, the men at the table sitting with their heads together in tiny groupings, echo the arrangement of the Last Supper. This connection to the Last Supper, seems to convey the seriousness of the occasion.
Bibliography
Kane, Peter (2005) Significant Space [online] Available at: http://www.source.ie/learning/approaches/is43kanpet01.xml (Accessed 12 June, 2018)
Attie, Shimon ( n.d.) Writing on the Wall [online] Available at: http://shimonattie.net/portfolio/the-writing-on-the-wall/ (Accessed 12 June, 2018)
Kuit, Lynda (2016) Jeff Wall [online] Available at: https://lyndakuitphotographycn.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/jeff-wall/ (Accessed 12 June, 2018)
Kuit, Lynda (2016) Research Point: Jeff Wall, Insomnia (1994) [online]. Available at: https://lyndakuitphotographycn.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/research-point-jeff-wall-insomnia-1994/ (Accessed 12 June, 2018)
Kuit, Lynda (2016) Art in the Twenty-first Century : Vancouver [online]. Available at: https://lyndakuitphotographyiap.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/art-in-the-twenty-first-century-vancouver/ (Accessed 12 June, 2018)
Kuit, Lynda (2017) Jeff Wall: In order to make a picture [online]. Available at: https://lyndakuitphotographyiap.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/jeff-wall-in-order-to-make-a-picture/ (Accessed 12 June, 2018)
Prix Pictet (2018). Luc Delahaye [online] Available at: https://www.prixpictet.com/portfolios/power-shortlist/luc-delahaye/luc-delahaye-007/ (Accessed 13 June, 2018)
Lynda Kuit Photography - Landscape 