Jeff Wall

Jeffery Wall is a photographer from Vancouver, Birtish Columbia in Canada. Jeff was born on September 29th 1946 in Birtish Columbia Vancouver. He ws trained in University of Birtish Columbia, Courtauld Institute. Jeff Wall has been known  in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s. Jeff recieved his MA from University of Birtish Columbia in 1970, with a thesis titled, Berlin Dada and the Notion of Context and did postgraduate work at the Courtauld Institute from 1970–73, where he studied with Manet expert T.J. Cl. Wall was assistant professor at the Nove Scotia College of Art and Design, associate professor at Simon Fraser University and taught for many years at the University of British Columbia. Jeff Wall's work he has done: Picture for Women (1979), Mimic (1982), A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) (1993). He was awarded awardes such as: OC, Hasselblad Award, Royal Society of Canada. Wall experimented with conceptual art while he was an undergraduate student at UBC. Wall made didnt make any art until 1977, when he produced his first backlit phototransparencies. Many of these pictures are staged and refer to the history of art and philosophical problems of representation. His pictures compositions often allude to historical artists like Diego Velázquez, or to writers such as Ralph Ellison.

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