Jeff Wall

"I begin by not photographing"

 

When Wall first sees something that he likes or finds interesting he does not photograph it. He looks at it and thinks about it but does not capture it in an image. He then goes back a rebuilds the scene in which he remembers and takes photographs of the remake. He tells a story of walking by three or four young people covered in tattoos, sitting under a tree on a summer day. When Wall decided to recreate this piece it took him nearly a year. He went back and used a more pictorally interesting tree and background setting and different people but still with the same idea of the scene that had caught his eye before.

 

 

 

"The reconstruction is a transformation that leads to something faithful"

 

 

 

"Jeff Wall: "I Begin by Not Photographing"" YouTube. YouTube, 07 July 2010. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.