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Jeff Wall, Photographs 1984–2023 – Kenneth Hayes, Hits and B-sides

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Authors: Kenneth Hayes | Artists: Jeff Wall

[Summer 2026] Hits and B-sides par Kenneth Hayes [EXCERPT] Looking at the photographs in Jeff Wall’s first Canadian survey exhibition in twenty-five years is a bit like listening to classic rock. It recalls a moment of intensity from the recent past, but although the images remain as clear as ever, a scrim of time and […]

Thematic presentation: Tableaux

Ciel variable 132 - TABLEAUX | Portfolios
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Donigan Cumming, Jeff Wall, Luc Delahaye

[Summer 2026] Thematic presentation by Jacques Doyon The artists’ portfolios that we present in this issue are apprehended from the point of view of the tableau – photographic, of course, but also drawing on pictorial and even cinematographic traditions. In views of daily life, scenes of conflicts, and portraits, posed or candid, they all have […]

Photography in Canada, 1960–2000, From Photographic Art to the World of Images – Pierre Dessureault

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Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Angela Grauerholz, David McMillan, Gabor Szilasi, George Hunter, Jeff Wall, Jim Breukelman, Jin-Me Yoon, John Massey, Ken Lum, Lynne Cohen, Nina Raginsky, Robert Burley

June 22, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — It seems less and less possible to analyze photography and photographic history without talking about production protocols, dissemination strategies, and contexts for conservation and display in public collections. Andrea Kunard situates her undertaking in regard to this position from the start…

Jeff Wall – Stephanie Gibson

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Authors: Stephanie Gibson | Artists: Jeff Wall

[Summer 2007] Museum of Modern Art, New York February 25 – May 14, 2007 It is fitting that the Jeff Wall retrospective should be displayed on the sixth and top floor of the MoMA. For decades, photography collections had been relegated to the basement of museums. Photography, it was supposed, did not fit within the seamless narrative […]

Jeff Wall – Cyril Thomas

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Authors: Cyril Thomas | Artists: Jeff Wall

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Tate Modern, Londres du 21 octobre 2005 au 8 janvier 2006

Jeff Wall – Dot Tuer

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Authors: Dot Tuer | Artists: Jeff Wall

[Spring 1999] In Jeff Wall’s photographs, there is an attraction and deflection – a push and pull of ideological thrusts and formal repartées – that entraps the viewer. Standing in front of a large-scale back-lit Cibachrome, one is caught in the middle of an exquisitely choreographed duel between painting and photography. by Dot Tuer In […]