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February 15, 2012
The location of this picture is on the fringes of Jeff Wall's home city of Vancouver. The scale of the work evokes traditional landscape painting but it is a far cry from the idealised visions of pastoral landscape:
Jeff Wall, Steve's Farm, 1980,
This represents of the encroachment of the suburbs on farm land, as a housing development seen in the distance on the right side of the picture seems to march across the landscape. The expanding suburbs are extinguishing the farm.The traditional notion of landscape as bucolic or idyllic is significantly disrupted and it causes discomfit or unease in the viewer
Wall distinguishes between unstaged "documentary" pictures, and "cinematographic" pictures produced using a combination of actors, sets, and special effects.
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