Jeff Wall Photographs 1978-2004Exhibtion at Tate Modern, . Information and resources on Jeff Wall at Tate Online.
Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004
Detail from Dead Troops Talk, 1992 Above and below: details from Dead Troops Talk
(A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986)
1992

Wall used computer technology to create this picture. It is made of hundreds of individual transparencies, taken over a period of months, and placed together in a digital montage.

'I've been able to experiment with a new range of subjects or types of picture that weren't really possible for me before. This technology has made available the picturing of possible worlds, parallel or imaginary universes...I have always considered my work to be a mimesis of the effects of cinema and of painting (at least traditional painting), and so the fictional, formal and poetic part of it has always been very important.' - Jeff Wall


Detail from Dead Troops Talk, 1992
Detail from Dead Troops Talk, 1992
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