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 Walls recent work by the French historian of art and photography Jean-François Chevrier, in addition to the artists recent writings. Describing himself as ´a painter of modern life´, Wall produces huge transparencies mounted ont
