Reclining, Salzburg, November 2007The Daily Telegraph has an interview with Jeff Wall & slide show linked to a current exhibition of his work in London.
The interesting thing that I find from what he has to say is that he is not about content/meaning in his work but much more focused on form & execution. And yet he is lauded all around the art world.
I'm interested in this apparent contradiction: convention has it that Art is all about content and meaning. The great photographs will be remembered by that standard, not the execution. Even the humble snapshot is more valuable in posterity for its content & evocation of memory than its technical execution. And yet here is a photographer disowning that in his own work.
Hubris or humility? You be the judge.
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