Jeff Wall - Maya

Jeff Wall's "Liquid Intelligence" seemed very pros-ey to me. It was a very artistically written piece about an idea he has of the relationship between water and photography. This is a relationship i have never really thought about, but as Wall points out, the two are complete opposites. He says that "the mechanical character of the action of opening and closing the shutter...is the concrete opposite kind of movement from the flow of a liquid." Because opposites serve to emphasize what the contrast, Wall states that he believes photography is the ideal medium to represent a liquid. Another relationship between water and photography is film's dependency on water to develop. There is much precision involved in development however, and the water aspect must be carefully controlled. Water, therefore, becomes the archaism of photography. This is a very creative relationship Wall has come up with, and i never would have even considered such a thing before reading his article.
After reading "Liquid Intelligence" The Galassi article was pretty hard to get into... it was very long and dry, more of a factual account photographical history. But i did enjoy looking at the pictures, which emphasized architecture, included with the article.