Photographers in Focus: Jeff Wall

The only way to continue in the spirit of the avantgarde is to experiment with your relation to tradition, Vancouverborn photographer Jeff Wall once said about his early work. Wall, who is best known for his suspensefilled reconstructions of quotidian life, came to photography as an art historian in the 1970s. Since then his images have referenced many, seemingly disparate, things such as nineteenthcentury painting, commercial advertising and street photography. The Canadian artists work subverts th