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Friday Quote: "I begin by not photographing” ~Jeff Wall

By cherylmachatdorskind

“I begin by not photographing” ~Jeff Wall
“I developed that phrase because it just described something I really do. If I see something on the street, lets say, I don’t photograph it. So I could be looking and hunting for things…but I just don’t photograph them.  It’s only a small difference, really. The actual event disappears as a photograph. It vanishes as a potential photograph. It doesn’t happen. But, it doesn’t disappear because I am the photographer…
October 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/242

Photografs like Paintings – Jeff Wall in Dresden… by deutschewelle
The Art Institute of Chicago on Jeff Wall: “Epic and luminous, the work of Jeff Wall has overturned nearly every convention of photography. Meticulously staged and theatrical in scale, Wall’s images have more in common with the grandest history painting of the 18th century and the flickering mesmerism of cinema than with the fleeting documentary style of much of modern photography.”
( http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/jeff_wall/overview.html)
Happy Friday,
Cheryl

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Professional photographer Cheryl Machat Dorskind is a three-time best-selling author and newspaper columnist, an international mentor, a photo educator and adjunct Full professor, a workshop and online instructor, a speaker, and an acclaimed “New York Times” fine-art photographer and handpainter.

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