Private View

Watch, and listen to curator Sheena Wagstaff in conversation with Jeff Wall in these RealPlayer clips (filmed on Monday 17th October 2005).

Video footage is available below of the following works:

Dead Troops Talk [...] 1992
Restoration 1993
Volunteer 1996

Picture for Woman 1979 Steves Farm, Stevenson 1980 The Storyteller 1986 Mimic 1982

Some Beans and An Octopus 1990 After 'Invisible Man' [...] 1990-2000 Overpass 2001 View from an apartment 2004

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Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) 1992

	1: What does the picture show? Real Media file. Running time: 3m 26s
	2: Does the picture relate to 19th century history painting? Real Media file. Running time: 2m 38s
	3: How does the picture relate to sound - and to pleasure? Real Media file. Running time: 2m 55s

Dead Troops Talk [...] 1992  /  Transparency in lightbox 2290 x 4170 mm  /  Mr. David Pincus
Cinematographic photograph  /  © The artist

Restoration 1993

	1: How was the picture constructed and what is the significance of the subject? Real Media file. Running time: 4m 16s
	2: What does the picture show about the panorama it depicts? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 41s

Restoration 1993  /  Transparency in lightbox 1190 x 4895 mm  /  Museum of art, Lucerne
Cinematographic photograph  /  © The artist

Volunteer 1996

	1: Why did you start to work in black and white? Real Media file. Running time: 2m 51s
	2: Was the mural in the picture painted in black and white? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 21s

Volunteer 1996  /  Silver gelatin print 2215 x 3130 mm
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel
Cinematographic photograph  /  © The artist

Picture for Women 1979

	1: What is its relationship to Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 51s
	2: How does it mark the difference between a painting and a photograph? Real Media file. Running time: 0m 58s

	1: What is the importance of the picture being taken outdoors? Real Media file. Running time: 2m 26s
	2: What is the importance of the subject in the picture? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 16s

	1: What is the importance of the location where the picture was taken? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 25s
	2: How have your thoughts about the picture changed since you made it? Real Media file. Running time: 2m 58s

1: What is the importance of gesture and mimicry in your work? Real Media file. Running time: 5m 11s

	1: How did the pictures come to be made? Real Media file. Running time: 4m 25s
	2: What is the importance of colour in your work? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 52s

	1: How did you come to make a picture based on your reading? Real Media file. Running time: 5m 21s
	2: How do you feel about Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 05s

	1: What is this picture's relationship to documentary photography or reportage? Real Media file. Running time: 3m 06s
	2: What is the importance of 'nomadism' and in-between states in this picture? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 58s

	1: What is the relationship between interior and exterior in this picture? Real Media file. Running time: 4m 19s
	2: Is it a picture about seeing? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 01s
	3: What is its relationship to your own Picture for Women? Real Media file. Running time: 1m 19s