Collection of the artist Transparency in lightbox, 142,5 x 204,5 cm. Transparency in lightbox, 142,5 x 204,5 cm. Picture for Women是对马奈画作的备注。学生时代Jeff Wall就在美术馆里反复端详这幅画，他想在自己的作品里去评论分析它、去抽出它的内部结构。 The main aim of this paper is firstly to analyse and critically discuss Jeff Wall’s seminal artwork Picture for Women. Jeff Wall based this elaborately staged photograph on the prologue of Ralph Ellison’s celebrated 1952 novel, Invisible Man.The novel’s protagonist, an unnamed African American man, relates that he lives secretly “in my hole in the basement,” where he has “wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it” with 1,369 lights powered by illegally siphoned off electricity. Collection of the artist Jeff Wall often discusses the significance of the studio to his work as a photographer. In this instance, Wall's photograph is a product of what the artist calls "accidents of reading," in which Wall conjures particular pictures in his mind in response to what he observes in his life, everything from books and artworks to encounters on the street. In the photograph a woman looks outward, as if at the viewer; a camera occupies the centre of the image; the photographer stands on the right. From Gagosian, Jeff Wall, Picture for Women (1979), Silver dye bleach transparency, aluminum lightbox, 56 1/8 × 80 1/2 in Nonetheless, the deliberate exposure of the studio is not so frequent in his oeuvre. Picture for Women, 1979. Picture for Women is a photographic work by Canadian artist Jeff Wall.Produced in 1979, Picture for Women is a key early work in Wall's career and exemplifies a number of conceptual, material and visual concerns found in his art throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Produced in 1979, Picture for Women is a key early work in Wall's career and exemplifies a number of conceptual, material and visual concerns found in his art throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Many of the pictures (including Milk) were derived from incidents that Wall observed and subsequently adapted and restaged with nonprofessional actors. He has published several books on photography, cinema and art, and over a hundred essays. Hij houdt zich bezig met fotografie, beeldende kunst en is ook een kunsthistoricus. Jeff Wall - Picture for Women, 1979. Jeff Wall: Picture for Women David Campany One Work Series. From Gagosian, Jeff Wall, Picture for Women (1979), Silver dye bleach transparency, aluminum lightbox, 56 1/8 × 80 1/2 in Jeff Wall describes his photograph Picture for Women (1979) as a 'remake' of Édouard Manet's painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, (1882). Het verhaal achter deze foto, Picture for women, is geheel in scene gezet door Jeff Wall zelf. The motif of the mirror reflection is fundamental to both artworks and foregrounds mutual concerns It will define its influences, compare and contrast Wall’s picture with Edouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère , and explore what it reveals about the relationship between photography and painting. Jeff Walls Bild „Milk“ beeindruckt durch eine auf den ersten Blick vermittelte Realitätsnähe. Jeff Wall’s Picture for Women (1979) marks the transition of photography as an art form from the printed page to the gallery wall. Wall haalt zijn inspiratie uit de schilderkunst en maakt verwijzingen naar de klassieke schilderkunst. David Campany is a writer, curator of exhibitions and an artist. Only in his first two staged photographs –The Destroyed Room and Picture for Women – the studio literally comes in the picture.