The first time I saw Jeff Wall’s photograph Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army Patrol, near Moqor, ...
Dead Troops Talk, stitched from around 50 photographs made in Wall’s studio, shows a group of dead Soviet soldiers chatting ...
Are you familiar with Jeff Wall? If not, let me enlighten you. For over 40 years, the Canadian photographic artist has been creating what’s known as 'staged documentary': meticulously constructed ...
When it comes to beauty — that mysterious quality that draws us to a work of art — acclaimed Canadian photographer Jeff Wall says it has little to do with how pretty, pleasing or polished a piece may ...
The artistic legitimacy of photography wasn’t always taken for granted. Photographs were seen as a technical curio or mere tool for documentation, useful mainly for scientists and journalists. This ...