Jeff wall prints

Canadian photographer

For the U.S. Solicitor General, see Jeff Wall (lawyer).

Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, ) is a Canadian photographer. He is artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing.

Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School^[1] and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace.

Jeff Wall - International Center of Photography

His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay, and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.

Career

Wall received his MA from the University of British Columbia in , with a thesis titled Berlin Dada and the Notion of Context. That same year, he stopped making art.

With his English wife, Jeannette, whom he had met as a student in Vancouver, and their two young sons, he moved to London^[2] to do postgraduate work from to at the Courtauld Institute, where