Jeff Wall

Jeff wall

discussions about using someone else’s work and whether it makes u an artist or a photographer dominated about 2 weeks of our discussions and lectures, i personally believe that if you mimic someones work in such a way that you merely change a minuscule amount of it into your work, makes u neither a photographer or a artist just someone who has rode of someone else's hard work.

There is examples of work which has taken a previous artists creation and placed it in another medium, an example of this is Jeff Wall’s ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind’ (after Hokusai) 1993, which is a replica of the work ‘Katsushika Hokusai Ejiri in Suruga Province’, which he has taken from a painting and turned into into a modern day interpretation but the resemblance has been deliberately made to mimic the original painting. 

Jeff walls images are designed to be displayed using light boxes with large transparencies.  What inspires me from these images the attention to detail and planning needed to produce the images on such a large scale, where blemishes and other imperfections would be easily seen.

A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) 1993 http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/infocus/section3/img2.shtm (accessed 25/4/11)