Jeff Wall
The Destroyed Room 1978

http://highlike.org/jeff-wall-2/

I think the idea inspires me more than the image itself, with photography I look for a more interesting image such as this one than a 'pretty' image.

The Destroyed Room(1978) is a ‘cinematographic’ photograph, carefully constructed in the studio.

A reference to Eugène Delacroix’s 1827 painting, Death of Sardanapalus, Wall’s work uses its large scale, strong light and oblique composition to locate itself in an uneasy place between historical painting and advertising.

Delacroix’s work, itself inspired by Byron’s play, shows the death of the Assyrian king Sardanapalus, who ordered the killing of his servants, the destruction of his palace and his own death after hearing of the defeat of his armies in battle.

The Destroyed Room uses Delacroix’s brutal spectacle as the platform for his own critique of the systems of meaning that control how we understand both commercial and artistic images.

http://www.mca.com.au/news/2013/05/27/jeff-wall-photographs-works-behind-works/

Even though this is sort of a constructed disaster it shows the power of illusion and what photography can do. It as a realistic feel to it even though it has been constructed in his studio.

In realtion the the subject of traces of traces, i feel that this image in influential as it shows the possibilities of the subject of leaving a trace.. I could make my own scene and manipulate it and shoot it, or it doesn't have to be a scene it could be my own created moment..