Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his phot[...]

Jeff Wall has lived in his hometown of Vancouver for all but four years of his life. Most of the images he has created are shot in and around that city, yet his art transcends these local subjects and addresses universal themes of history and memory. That explains why his work is celebrated around t[...]

Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall (born in 1946) has focused on the potential of artistic composition, the boundaries between the genres of painting, photography, sculpture, and film, fiction and reality. His first European solo exhibition was held in Munich in 1984, [...]

Some of the carefully staged and composed images here are digitally altered, and almost all of them were originally displayed in backlit boxes. If those strategies sound familiar, you can thank Jeff Wall, born in Vancouver in 1946 and widely recognized as one of the most adventurous and inventive ar[...]

This book unites the work of contemporary artists who address the experience of time as a material: Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Joachim Koester, Ceal Floyer, Steven Pippin, Michael Weseley, Paul Pfeiffer, Michael Snow, Daniel Blaufuks, Mabel Palacin, David Claerbout, Erwin Wurm, Tacita Dean, Inaki [...]