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- JEFF WALL - Various contributors - Phaidon - - Jeff Wall is foremost among the artists who since the late 1960s have brought photography to the forefront of contemporary art. This revised and expanded edition of the definitive monograph on the Canadian artist, first published in 1996, includes a new fully illustrated essay on Wall?s recent work by the French historian of art and photography Jean-Fran?ois Chevrier, in addition to the artist?s recent writings. Describing himself as ?a painter of modern life?, Wall produces huge transparencies mounted onto light boxes which diffuse a brilliant glow through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and ?constructed? social situations. - - 212 pages - English - -