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Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian photographer. He is artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing.
Jeff Wall’s work synthesizes the essentials of photography with elements from other art forms—including painting, cinema, and literature—in a complex mode that he calls “cinematography.” His pictures range from classical reportage to elaborate constructions and montages, usually produced at the larger scale traditionally identified ...
Learn about Jeff Wall, a Canadian artist who creates backlit, large-scale photographic transparencies that combine painting and advertising. Explore his works, exhibitions, audio, and publications at MoMA.
Jeff Wall is a leading contemporary Canadian photographer whose work is concerned with ideas about the nature of images, representation, and memory. View Jeff Wall’s 223 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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Jan 26, 2024 · Jeff Wall: ‘What’s really happened to me is those pictures — they’re my little adventures’. As his latest retrospective opens in Basel, the 77-year-old Canadian artist concedes a biographical...
When Jeff Wall took this photograph in 1984, it was only seven years after his first ‘cinematographic’ pictures. The artist’s talent lies in his ability to capture this suddenness, suggesting that he was in the right place at the right time purely by coincidence.
Dec 2, 2021 · Jeff Wall began working this way — huge scale, color images lit from behind — in the 1970s. After 20 years, he gave up color and transparency for a while, wanting to do something different ...
