Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson trace early influences

In these online 30-minute events, Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, asks each guest a list of simple questions about artistic practice, and the anticipation of an end to the pandemic crisis.
Jeff Wall was born in in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives and works. Collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Broad, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada. Exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007, traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art); "In light, black, colour, white, and dark," PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (2012); "Jeff Wall Photographs," Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2012, traveled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, through 2013); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2013); "Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 996-203," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2014, traveled to Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, through 2015); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2014); Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris (2015); Appearance, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2018); and Mudam Luxembourg (2018).
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Part of the 2021 reprise of the Yale Photo MFA program’s Pop Up Lecture Series via Zoom, in which Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, interviews guests on the pandemic crisis and the nature of artistic practice.
Full information available here: www.art.yale.edu/photo-pop-up...

[@frontstandard1488]

As ever Jeff is truly engaging and spontaneous and the questions and mood just so complimentary. A great privilege to witness this and learn from these remarkable artists. Thanks so much.

[@stephangottlicher6098]

Wow... this is what the arts and the art of photography is all about! Thank you!

[@abreusky]

thank u for this, always good to hear Jeff Wall!

[@tzirufim]

Two of the greatest art photographers of all time having a talk. I am more than humbled to be a witness of this conversation. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@tedbear2441]

Jeff's webcam output is not unlike much of his work. Well dressed, considered lighting, the background is a mute Sean Scully. Even the sound is good. His only concession to the 'Zoom call aesthetic' is his eye line.