Vancouver-based artist Jeff Wall (born 1946) has been making arresting, conceptually and politically complex pictures for over four decades. Using large-format photography that embraces both the deliberateness of painting and the immediacy of the moving image, he is known for immersive, sharply detailed scenes featuring figures enacting everyday dramas. Departing from the convention of street photography and its aspirations of authenticity, Wall instead favors the artificial and the cinematic; he meticulously plans and constructs his pictures, scouting locations, casting actors as subjects and organizing the shoots with the rigor of a movie production.

Jeff Wall accompanies the artist's monographic exhibition at Glenstone, a survey of works made between 1978 and 2018. It is also his largest exhibition in the US since his widely acclaimed 2007 midcareer survey at the Museum of Modern Art. Comprising nearly 30 artworks, the catalog appraises the full range of the artist's pioneering oeuvre, from early pictures displayed in backlit lightboxes and black-and-white silver gelatin prints

to more recent large-scale inkjet color prints. Jeff Wall also features

an introduction by Glenstone cofounder and director Emily Wei Rales and an essay by art critic and poet Barry Schwabsky.

艺术家杰夫·沃尔（Jeff Wall）1946年生于温哥华，在40多年的摄影生涯里，一直在制作引人注目的、概念复杂的图片。他使用兼具绘画的刻意性和动态图像的即时性的大画幅摄影，以身临其境、细致入微的人物表演日常戏剧场景而闻名。与传统的街头摄影及其对真实性的追求不同，沃尔更倾向于人工和电影；他精心策划和构建他的照片，勘察地点，挑选演员作为拍摄对象，并以电影制作的严谨态度组织拍摄工作。

本书伴随着艺术家杰夫·沃尔在格兰斯通博物馆的专题展览，是对1978年至2018年期间作品的调查。这也是他自2007年在现代艺术博物馆举办广受好评的职业生涯中期调查以来在美国的较大展览。该目录包括近30件艺术作品，评估了艺术家的全部开创性作品，从早期的背光灯箱和黑白银胶版画到近来的大型喷墨彩色印刷品。本书还收录了格兰斯通博物馆联合创始人兼董事艾米丽·韦·拉尔斯（Emily Wei Rales）的介绍以及艺术评论家和诗人巴里·施瓦布斯基（Barry Schwabsky）的文章。