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Jeff Wall

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in Vancouver, Canada

September 29, 1946

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Jeff Wall is a leading contemporary Canadian photographer whose work is concerned with ideas about the nature of images, representation, and memory. His large-scale photographs appropriate the visual language of advertising in their use of backlit transparencies and large scale. The subjects are “cinematographic” reconstructions of everyday moments, fiction, and art history, which he refers to as “near documentary”. “[Near documentary] means that they are pictures whose subjects were suggested by my direct experience, and ones in which I tried to recollect that experience as precisely as I could, and to reconstruct and represent it precisely and accurately,” he said of his process.

Born on September 29, 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, he received ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 364 ratings · 27 reviews · 76 distinct works • Similar authors

	Jeff Wall by Jeff Wall (Photographer), Peter Galassi (Contributor), James Rondeau (Contributor) 4.45 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews by Jeff Wall, Peter Galassi (Foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeff Wall: Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series by Jeff Wall (Photographer), Thierry de Duve (Editor), Arielle Pelenc (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeff Wall: The Complete Edition by Jeff Wall (Photographer), Thierry de Duve (Editor), Boris Groys (Contributor) 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004 by Jeff Wall (Photographer), Sheena Wagstaff 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeff Wall: Works and Collected Writings by Jeff Wall, Michael Newman (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeff Wall: Photographs by Jeff Wall, Peter Bürger, Homay King 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pictures of Architecture – Architecture of Pictures: A Conversation between Jacques Herzog and Jeff Wall, moderated by Philip Ursprung (Kunst und ... Art and Architecture in Discussion 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gestus: Scritti sull'arte e la fotografia by Jeff Wall, Stefano Graziani (Editor ) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeff Wall by Jeff Wall (Photographer), Martin Schwander (Editor), Ralph Ubl (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars