Take away the verbal description –

— and you’ll have to relate to the picture as a poem an image of an image: Jeff Wall: After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue, 1999-2000 (my image is shot at the exhibition Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996-2013 at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, which I visited in the spring of 2014) In the following video…

Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall: Artists need material limitations  I have never read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, but I have for a very long time been in love with Jeff Wall’s appropriation of it.    Jeff Wall: After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Preface, (1999-2001) * First shown at Documenta 11, After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Preface, (1999-2001),…