Product Description: This publication shows how Canadian artist Jeff Wall (born 1946) generates provocative visual performances that require active participation on the part of the viewer. Wall's photographic works are compared with those of earlier artists such as Diego Velázquez, Jan Vermeer, Claude Monet and Marcel Duchamp...read more

Product Description: Jeff Wall (born 1946) is both one of the most innovative and classic photographers of his generation. He became well known in the 1970s for his large-format transparencies, backlit by fluorescent lightboxes. His subject matter is varied and wide-ranging, based on situations experienced by the artist that are then recreated for the camera...read more

Product Description: As a first-generation member of the Vancouver photoconceptualist scene with Ian Wallace and Jeff Wall, Christos Dikeakos is as much an historian as a photographer. For Dikeakos, the process of looking at a subject overlaps with looking back...read more

Product Description: Since receiving international acclaim in the mid-1980s for his portraits of Italian aristocratic families, Parisian photographer Patrick Faigenbaum (born 1954) has continued to explore the expressive power of portraiture. This survey of his work features 30 black-and-white and 21 color photographs...read more

Trained as an art historian, Jeff Wall has been working for over 25 years on his expansive light boxes of staged scenes. These backlit photographic transparencies are set in cases generally associated with advertising display; but, instead of advertisements, Wall fills them with moments of everyday life that usually go unacknowledged: workers restoring a historic building, a janitor mopping a floor, a kitchen flooded with sunlight, the side of a house in the prairies. Carefully staged and meticulously composed, often over and over again until the perfect image has been achieved, Wall's images have explored a wide range of social and political themes, including urban violence, racism, poverty, gender and class conflicts, history, memory, and representation. Like the great French realist painters of the 19th century, Wall is, in the words of Charles Baudelaire, "a painter of modern life."

Product Description: A comprehensive survey of the work of Jeff Wall. Known for his large-format transparencies and his cinematic imagery, Canadian artist Jeff Wall composes his photographic works in the manner of a film director, staging scenes and making meticulous use of technical aids such as videos, still photographs and computer technology to achieve the desired effect...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Douglas Gordon exposes certain time-based effects that are at the root of our sense of psychological security. This process is implemented by re-emphasizing key elements from carefully researched material, as well as using specially made video and film footage to restructure the mass of connections that influence an artist's activity...read more

Product Description: Beneath an apparant celebration of social integration, Lum’s Signs - for a motel, a restaurant, a hairdresser’s - expose the ramifications of the systematic displacement of peoples. They mime the real signs found in those working class areas on the edge of any city and often populated by people from some of the most devastated parts of the world...read more