Gabi Cruz reviews Jeff Wall

Important photographer Jeff Wall makes massive color photograph that appear to express how people interact in their daily life, but, are actually large production. Gripped in the cinema of the postwar era, especially the unusually chronicle arrangement of Neo-Realism, his acclaimed work includes making complex visual themes of telling stories, which he captures and then exhibit in wall-mounted lightboxes. “I wanted to exaggerate the artificial aspect of my work as a way to create a distance from the dominant context of reportage, the legacy of Robert Frank and the others,” Wall explains. “I saw something else in photography, something to do with scale, with color and with construction, which might be valid along with the more established values that had come down from the 19th century and had been extended by the great photographers of the 20th century.” Wall’s work is a wide range, and for many years has also includes smaller, documentary photographs and, since 1997, black-and-white pictures.