Jeff Wall. Photographs 1978-2004

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Jeff Wall. Photographs 1978-2004 is an illustrated publication accompanying Tate Modern's major exhibition devoted to Canadian artist and photographer Jeff Wall. Covering work produced between 1978 and 2004, it surveys a crucial period in the career of an artist who played an important role in establishing large-scale photography within contemporary art. Wall is particularly known for monumental colour transparencies displayed in illuminated lightboxes, a presentation method that evokes advertising imagery and cinema while simultaneously drawing on the traditions of painting and art history. His photographs range from apparently spontaneous observations of modern urban life to meticulously constructed scenes involving actors, sets and extensive preparation. Everyday situations, social encounters, landscapes and moments of tension are transformed into carefully composed images in which documentary observation and fiction frequently become difficult to separate. Wall's work engages with nineteenth-century painting, modernism, cinema and the history of photography, while addressing the possibilities of photographic representation in contemporary art. Spanning more than twenty-five years of his practice, this Tate Modern publication provides a concise visual document of his development and is particularly relevant to collectors and researchers interested in contemporary photography, conceptual art, staged photography, the Vancouver School and post-war art.