JEFF WALL

With Jeff Wall. Rebuilding modernity, Philippe Bazin gives us his point of view artist's take on the work of a world-renowned photographer. Inviting Constantly bringing the unreal into the mundane, Jeff Wall has become a master in the art of familiar strangeness. Philippe Bazin offers here a panorama of his work which he generously sweeps away, since the very first works of the end of the 1970s to the dawn of the 2000s. It thus illuminates around thirty of photographs, reproduced in large format, by confronting them with the ideal Baudelairean “painter of modern life”, which irrigates the practice and the reflection of the Canadian artist since his beginnings. This book presents the advantage of offering itself as a fluid conversation, an intellectual dialogue and sensitive between two photographers on the lookout for the “real fantastic extracted of life", which Baudelaire had glimpsed. Jeff Wall's work is finally made accessible in a work which presents the introduction of the performance in photographic aesthetics.