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OverviewJeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) marks the transition of photography as an art form from the printed page to the gallery wall. Before this, photographs--from the orthodox photographic work of Walker Evans to the Conceptual photography of Dan Graham--seemed intended for the page even when hung in a gallery. In Picture for Women, a woman looks outward, as if at the viewer; a camera occupies the center of the photograph; the photographer stands on the right. Modeled on Manet's famous painting Un bar aux Folies-Bergere, in which a barmaid seems to look directly out of the painting, observed by a man on the right, Picture for Women establishes its own art historical genealogy, claiming its rightful position within the canon. Wall's photograph is an ambitious attempt to relate the artistic and spectatorial demands of the late 1970s to a modernist pictorial art that had been too hastily rejected by Conceptualism. In this illustrated study, David Campany offers an account of Wall's move from a Conceptual approach to a reengagement with the idea of a singular (as opposed to serial) picture. He shows that Wall's decision to present his work as a large-scale back-lit transparency, together with his commitment to a singular image, amounted to a radical departure. He contrasts Wall's idea of the photograph as a tableau or picture, inherited from the history of painting, with the works of the Pictures Generation --including Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Jack Goldstein--and argues that Picture for Women is inseparable from the modern fate of the picture in general. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David CampanyPublisher: Afterall Publishing Imprint: Afterall Publishing Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781846380709ISBN 10: 1846380707 Pages: 118 Publication Date: 08 April 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviews<p> The book is most suitable for first-year undergraduate students ofart and photography in the kinds of arguments and debates it raises. --Jeremy Spencer, Cassone Author InformationDavid Campany is an artist and writer and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of Art and Photography. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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