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23 de oct. de 2020 · Mimic (1982) is an early and much discussed picture by the Canadian photographer Jeff Wall, with the discussion centering largely on two topics: its subject matter and its setting (fig. 1). The subject is racism, and in this regard Mimic is “characteristic,” as Wall's best critic, Michael Fried, has observed, “of Wall's ...
Mimic (1982) typifies Wall's cinematographic style and according to art historian Michael Fried is "characteristic of Wall's engagement in his art of the 1980s with social issues". A 198 × 226 cm colour transparency, it shows a white couple and an Asian man walking towards the camera.
28 de jun. de 2016 · The first of his “street pictures” was Mimic (1982), a lightbox that seems to depict three people in motion as they pass each other on the sidewalk. It was originally conceived to “[concentrate] a lot on a typical gesture, perhaps a micro-gesture, but certainly a small gesture of race hatred.”
Una famosa imagen de Jeff Wall es Mimic de 1982. Resulta ser una transparencia de color de 198 cm por 229 cm. En ella vemos a tres personas, una pareja y un hombre, caminando hacia la cámara sobre un lado de la acera.
In Milk (1984) the decisive moment is the spray of white liquid against the grid of a brick wall. In Mimic it’s the racist gesture, which as we’ve seen is a piece of play-acting under the photographer’s control. Not-photography is that control.
2 de dic. de 2021 · Mimic, 1982, transparency in lightbox. Jeff Wall/© Jeff Wall; Courtesy the artist and Glenstone Museum. He sees something — a white man, pulling his eyelid back into a slant as he passes an...
14 de sept. de 1994 · So, the journey goes from an instantaneous character in his older works such as Mimic (1982), to the digital collage of his last photographs, as in the case of The giant, made up of over forty different images painstakingly assembled by computer.
