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Jeff Wall Photographs 1978-2004 Exhibition at Tate Modern, 21 October 2005  –  8 January 2006. Information and resources on Jeff Wall at Tate Online.
Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004

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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

Audio clips are available for the following works:
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

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

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

Restoration 1993

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

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

Volunteer 1996

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

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

Audio Clips

Images of these works are available in the exhibition room guide.

Picture for Women 1979
audio 1: What is its relationship to Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere?
Real Media file. Running time: 1m 51s
audio 2: How does it mark the difference between a painting and a photograph?
Real Media file. Running time: 0m 58s

Steve's Farm, Stevenson 1980
audio 1: What is the importance of the picture being taken outdoors?
Real Media file. Running time: 2m 26s
audio 2: What is the importance of the subject in the picture?
Real Media file. Running time: 1m 16s

The Storyteller 1986
audio 1: What is the importance of the location where the picture was taken?
Real Media file. Running time: 1m 25s
audio 2: How have your thoughts about the picture changed since you made it?
Real Media file. Running time: 2m 58s

Mimic 1982
audio 1: What is the importance of gesture and mimicry in your work?
Real Media file. Running time: 5m 11s

Some Beans 1990, An Octopus 1990
audio 1: How did the pictures come to be made?
Real Media file. Running time: 4m 25s
audio 2: What is the importance of colour in your work?
Real Media file. Running time: 1m 52s

After 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue 1999-2000
audio 1: How did you come to make a picture based on your reading?
Real Media file. Running time: 5m 21s
audio 2: How do you feel about Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man?
Real Media file. Running time: 1m 05s

Overpass 2001
audio 1: What is this picture's relationship to documentary photography or reportage?
Real Media file. Running time: 3m 06s
audio 2: What is the importance of 'nomadism' and in-between states in this picture?
Real Media file. Running time: 1m 58s

A View From an Apartment
2004-5
audio 1: What is the relationship between interior and exterior in this picture?
Real Media file. Running time: 4m 19s
audio 2: Is it a picture about seeing?
Real Media file. Running time: 1m 01s
audio 3: What is its relationship to your own Picture for Women?
Real Media file. Running time: 1m 19s

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