Jeff Wall (1946 - )

“My practice has been to reject the role of witness or journalist, of ‘photographer,’ which in my view objectifies the subject of the picture by masking the impulses and feelings of the picture-maker. The poetics or the ‘productivity’ of my work has been in the stagecraft and pictorial composition – what I call the cinematography.”

“The essential model, for me, is still the painter, the artisan who has all the tools and materials they need right at hand, and who knows how to make the object he or she is making from start to finish. With photography this is almost possible.”