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November 3, 2005
A mixture of cinematic and documentary tendences in photography:

Jeff Wall, A ventriloquist at a birthday party in October 1947, 1990, Transparency in lightbox
The image is a mixture of the literary (Franz Kafka's short story 'The Cares of a Family Man'), film noir and the familiarity of the everyday. It creates claustrophobic and hermetic worlds of fantasy and strangeness.
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