Artforum, September 1st, 2003
OVER THE PAST TWO AND A HALF DECADES, JEFF WALL HAS SUSTAINED A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE OF REMARKABLE PRESCIENCE. FOR THIS ISSUE, THE PHOTOGRAPHER LOOKS BACK-AS WELL AS FORWARD. A NEW ESSAY REVISITING HIS OWN COMING-OF-AGE AS AN ARTIST IN THE LATE '70S AND EARLY '80S SETS THE STAGE FOR A PORTFOLIO OF RECENTLY COMPLETED IMAGES PRESENTED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
In 1977, when I started making my large color pictures, it was still possible to talk about photography in, or as, art, in a way that wasn't terribly different from the way it was talked about in 1970 or 1960. The classic idea of art phot...
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