‘CINEMATOGRAPHIC’: AN EXPLORATION INTO THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TABLEAUX OF JEFF WALL AND GREGORY CREWDSON

Gerrie, Vanessa, «’CINEMATOGRAPHIC’: AN EXPLORATION INTO THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TABLEAUX OF JEFF WALL AND GREGORY CREWDSON». , ,

Abstract
This dissertation will examine the ways in which two artists, Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson, use photography to create images that are cinematic not only aesthetically but technically. Their work allows us to identify a new kind of art photography. By placing their work within the context of the ÔPictures GenerationÕ of the 1970s we can see the evolution and the emergence of this photographic regime. The Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s saw a shift in what was known as art photography. From the 1970s onwards artists such as Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons used the medium as a means to construct fictional photographic tableaux that appropriated imagery from film, painting, commodity culture and everyday life. Wall and Crewdson create highly constructed pictorial tableaux in the fashion of the classic Western picture that evoke a sense of unease and uncanniness while at the same time produce subject matter that is banal and highly recognisable. Through examining the work of each artist, we will see that two generations of image makers find inspiration in this cinematic tableau approach to the medium of photography.

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