Hoge Kwaliteit Jeff Wall Picture for Women – David Campany

Jeff Wall’s Picture for Women (1979) marks the transition of photography as an art form from the printed page to the gallery wall. Before this, photographs — from the orthodox photographic work of Walker Evans to the Conceptual photography of Dan Graham — seemed intended for the page even when hung in a gallery. In Picture for Women, a woman looks outward, as if at the viewer; a camera occupies the center of the photograph; the photographer stands on the right. Modeled on Manet’s famous painting Un bar a…