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Detail from Jeff Wall, Trân Dúc Ván, 1988/2003
Detail from Jeff Wall, Trân Dúc Ván, 1988/2003

In 2003, Wall decided to digitally remake this image, ordering that the original transparency from 1988, which had featured two young people walking past be replaced by this one containing a single passer by. This reduction from three figures in the photograph to just two, each of whom appears to be wrapped in their own world, creates a sharper opposition between the two.

 
Left: details from 1988 and 2003 versions of Trân Dúc Ván

Below: 1988 and 2003 versions of Trân Dúc Ván

Jeff Wall, Trân Dúc Ván, 1988/2003 Jeff Wall, Trân Dúc Ván, 1988/2003
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