Hammer Projects: Jeff Wall - Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum presents a group of new works by the internationally acclaimed Canadian artist Jeff Wall. Wall’s work of the past twenty-five years consists primarily of large-scale, color transparencies mounted in lightboxes, and, since 1995, black and white photographs. His pictures resemble both paintings and film stills, drawing the viewer into highly specific scenes that imply larger narratives.
First shown at Documenta 11, After &Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Preface, , represents a well-known scene from Ellison’s classic novel. Wall’s version shows us the cellar room, “warm and full of light” in which Ellison’s narrator lives, complete with its 1,369 lightbulbs. Energy and light, stolen from the electric company, illuminate not only the character’s basement dwelling, but also the truth of his existence. He tells us, “Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…. Without light I am not only invisible
and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…. The truth is the light and light is the truth.”
This large work is accompanied by a selection of smaller pictures without figures, including Rainfilled Suitcase, 2001. These pictures, which are straight photographs, complement the “cinematography” of the larger piece, and give a sense of the different aspects of Wall’s work.
This exhibition was organized by Russell Ferguson, chief curator.Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, where he currently lives and works. His one-person exhibitions include Jeff Wall: Figures and Places at the Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2001), Jeff Wall: Oeuvres,
at the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal (1999), and Jeff Wall at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997). His work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany (2002).
Hammer Projects: Jeff Wall. Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. January 11-April 13, 2003. Photo by Joshua White.
The point now is that I found a home—or a hole in the ground, as you will. Now don’t jump to the conclusion that because I call my home a “hole” it is damp a there are cold holes and warm holes. Mine is a warm hole. And remember, a bear retires to his hole for the winter an then he comes strolling out like the Easter chick breaking from its shell. I say all this to assure you that it is incorrect to assume that, because I’m invisible and live in a hole, I am dead. I am neither dead nor in a state of suspended animation. Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation.
My hole is warm and full of light. Yes, full of light. I doubt if there is a brighter spot in all New York than this hole of mine, and I do not exclude Broadway. Or the Empire State Building on a photographer’s dream night. But that is taking advantage of you. Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization—pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I’ve heard)—which may sound like a hoax, or a contradiction, but that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang. (Beware of those who speak of the spiral
they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy.) I I have been boomeranged across my head so much that I now can see the darkness of lightness. And I love light. Perhaps you’ll think it strange that an invisible man should need light, desire light, love light. But maybe it is exactly because I am invisible. Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form. A beautiful girl once told me of a recurring nightmare in which she lay in the center of a large dark room and felt her face expand until it filled the whole room, becoming a formless mass while her eyes ran in bilious jelly up the chimney. And so it is with me. Without light I am not only invisible,
and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death. I myself, after existing some twenty years, did not become alive until I discovered my invisibility.
That is why I fight my battle with Monopolated Light & Power. The deeper reason, I mean: It allows me to feel my vital aliveness. I also fight them for taking so much of my money before I learned to protect myself. In my hole in the basement there are exactly 1,369 lights. I’ve wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it. And not with fluorescent bulbs, but with the older, more-expensive-to-operate kind, the filament type. An act of sabotage, you know. I’ve already begun to wire the wall. A junk man I know, a man of vision, has supplied me with wire and sockets. Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth. When I finish all four walls, then I’ll start on the floor. Just how that will go, I don’t know. Yet when you have lived invisible as long as I have you develop a certain ingenuity. I’ll solve the problem. And maybe I’ll invent a gadget to place my coffee pot on the fire while I lie in bed, and even invent a gadget to warm my bed—like the fellow I saw in one of those picture magazines who made himself a gadget to warm his shoes! Though invisible, I am in the great American tradition of tinkers. That makes me kin to Ford, Edison and Franklin. Call me, since I have a theory and a concept, a “thinker-tinker.” Yes, I’ they need it, they’re usually full of holes. I’ll do that and more.
From Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952). New York: Random House, 1982, pp. 5–6. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Hammer Projects are made possible with support from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and members of the Hammer Circle.
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3秒自动关闭窗口may have another PR nightmare on their hands. IT architect and Flickr user
couldn’t log on to his
yesterday, and when he asked the Flickr team about this issue they flat out told him they had
his entire account, and the
that were in it, straight down the drain.
Apparently Wilhelm reported a Flickr user with an account that held ‘obviously stolen material’ to the company last weekend, but a staff member erroneously incinerated his account instead of the culprit’s.
Unfortunately, I have mixed up the accounts and accidentally deleted yours. I am terribly sorry for this grave error and hope that this mistake can be reconciled. Here is what I can do from here:
I can restore your account, although we will not be able to retrieve your photos. I know that there is a lot of history on your account–again, please accept my apology for my negligence. Once I restore your account, I will add four years of free Pro to make up for my error.
Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do.
Again, I am deeply sorry for this mistake.
Flickr staff
What amazes me most about this story is how calmly Wilhelm reacts to the termination of his account:
It is kind of nice, getting an additional 4 years of service subscription for free… but I already received free Pro subscriptions for the next year just by taking part in some events and competitions.
So how can this really compensate losing close to 4000 “linked” pictures from my web albums? I have to recreate most of these links manually, which will take weeks, if not months of my free time! Not to mention, external websites that had linked these images (including some official Yahoo! and Flickr blogs).
Since Flickr had deleted the account an all the related object, they cannot reactivate anything more that the account itself, leaving me with an empty shell of what I did during the last 5 years. This would be acceptable, if I had a free account. But since I’m a paying customer, I would expect a bit more that a “Again, I am deeply sorry for this mistake.”
I expect at least a process that can undo this kind of mistakes. For any other kind of compensation, I will take some time to consult.
I’ve never been a big Flickr user, but I had always assumed a simple click of the button couldn’t delete an account and its content altogether, rather than simply deactivate it.
It never occurred to me that a team member could just wipe out accounts without the means to reactivate them if it turned out to be a mistake.
And what about backups for Christ’s sake?
For what it’s worth, Flickr’s Zack Sheppard
in the Flickr forum thusly:
We’ve been working on the ability to restore accounts for a while and hope to have it completed early this year.
We have been in contact with Mirco and may be able to restore his account. The partial work that has been done so far may make it possible to retrieve the account. It’s only a maybe but we want to try and do everything we can to rectify this mistake.
Just as people have stated above, we also believe this is an important feature to have in place for cases like this when there was an error. As many of you know we usually do not discuss features before they are released but because of the community concern we wanted to let you know in this case.
So basically there hasn’t been a way for Flickr to restore accidentally removed paid accounts since the company was founded, maybe they can do something about Mirco’s account (you have to wonder what would have happened hadn’t he raised a
about this in the first place) and users should be so lucky that Flickr is letting them know they might be able to restore erroneously terminated accounts at some point in the future.
Duly noted.
UPDATE: Yahoo issued this response:
Yesterday, Flickr mistakenly deleted a member’s account due to human error.
Flickr takes user trust very seriously and we, like our users, take great pride in being able to take, post and share photos.
Our teams are in touch with the member and are currently working hard to try to restore the contents of his account. In addition, we are providing the member with 25 years of free Flickr Pro membership.
We are also actively working on a process that will allow us to easily restore deleted accounts and will roll this functionality out soon.
Yahoo! is pleased to share that the Flickr team has fully restored a member’s account that was mistakenly deleted yesterday. We regret the human error that led to the mistake and have worked hard to rectify the situation, including reloading the entire photo portfolio and providing the member with 25 years of free Flickr Pro membership. Flickr takes the trust of our members very seriously and we appreciate the patience shown by this member and our community. Flickr will also soon roll out functionality that will allow us to restore deleted accounts more easily in the future.
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