Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews

Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews by Wall, Jeff. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780870707087.

Throughout his career, the influential art photographer Jeff Wall has written periodically on a variety of subjects--from the work of his Vancouver colleagues, to the art of such diverse figures as Edouard Manet, On Kawara, and Dan Graham, to the important role of photography in Conceptual art. Walls own work takes center stage in the many interviews he has granted over the past two decades. Both the essays and the interviews are indispensable to the study of Walls work, which will be the subject of a major American traveling retrospective, with stops in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, throughout 2007. Thanks to Walls wide-ranging curiosity, nimble mind, and articulate voice, the texts are also of considerable interest outside of the context of his own oeuvre. This generous selection of 14 essays and 23 interviews from the past 25 years is the first collection of Walls texts to be published in English, and as such, is an instant collectors item. This affordable volume also includes 120 black-and-white illustrations for reference purposes.