Jeff Wall

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Author: Wall, JeffVancouver-based artist Jeff Wall has been making arresting, conceptually and politically complex pictures for over four decades. Using large-format photography th at embraces both the deliberateness of painting and the immediacy of the moving image, he is known for immersive, sharply detailed scenes featuring figures enacting everyday dramas. This title accompanies the artist’s monographic exhibition at Glenstone, a survey of works made between 1978 and 2018. Departing from the convention of street photography and its aspirations of authenticity, Wall instead favuors the artificial and the cinematic; he meticulously plans and constructs his pictures, scouting locations, casting actors as subjects and organising the shoots with the rigour of a movie production. It is also his largest exhibition in the US since his widely acclaimed 2007 midcareer survey at the Museum of Modern Art. Comprising nearly 30 artworks, the catalog appraises the full range of the artist’s pioneering oeuvre, from early pictures displayed in backlit lightboxes and black-and-white silver gelatin prints to more recent large-scale inkjet colour prints. Jeff Wall also features an introduction by Glenstone cofounder and director Emily Wei Rales and an essay by art critic and poet Barry Schwabsky.ISBN 9780999802977. Glenstone Museum. hb. 92 pages. 38 colour, 2 b/w ills. 30 x 26 cm.available Show more