EAN: 9783775756303

JEFF WALL

Since the late 1970s  the Canadian artist Jeff Wall has contributed significantly to
establishing photography as an autonomous medium  and is regarded as one of the key vanguards
of "staged photography". Referring to his approach as "near documentary"  his images resemble
documentary photographs in style and manner  but instead are meticulously composed 
multilayered compositions. Synthesizing photography with elements from other art forms such as
painting  cinema  and literature-in a complex mode that he calls "cinematography"-his deeply
intellectual work stages fictional realities  memories and past experiences in an elaborate
process.  Featuring more than fifty works  this catalogue accompanying the large-scale
exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler juxtaposes Wall's iconic backlit color transparencies with
his more recent black and white photographs and color C-prints  revealing a variety of
references in content and form.   With his innovative approach to photography  JEFF WALL (*1946
Vancouver) has significantly shaped the medium and its status within contemporary art. After
completing his postgraduate studies in art history in the mid-1970s  his new conceptual
approach to large-format pictorial photography attracted attention. Each of his images is a
unique composition that can take years to complete. Since the mid-1990s he has expanded his
repertoire  working with traditional black-and-white prints and  more recently  inkjet color
prints. He lives and works in Vancouver.

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