Jeff Wall Photographs 1978-2004Exhibtion at Tate Modern, . Information and resources on Jeff Wall at Tate Online.
Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004
A view from an apartment 2004
Transparency and lightbox. 1670 x 2440 mm
Collection of the artist Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Cinematographic photograph
© The artist

This is Wall's most recent work. It was photographed between May 2004 and March 2005 in an apartment specially rented for the purpose. Wall says he wanted to make a picture of an interior that included a view, something he had not done before. He asked one of the women in the picture to furnish the apartment and live in it as if it were her own. Shooting occurred at various points during this time and the resulting photographs were then digitally combined. With A view from an apartment  Wall achieves a remarkable synthesis of a number of his preoccupations: a commonplace interior opens onto an urban panorama; documentary material is treated with cinematographic dynamism; the everyday is heightened through composition and the effects of light; and a narrative is suggested but left incomplete.

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