Jeff Wall - Refonder la modernité

With Jeff Wall. Refonder la modernité, Philippe Bazin gives us his artist’s point of view on the work of a world-famous photographer. Constantly inviting the unreal into the mundane, Jeff Wall is a master in the art of the familiar strange. Here, Philippe Bazin offers a generous overview of his work, from his earliest works in the late 1970s to the dawn of the 2000s. He sheds light on some thirty photographs, reproduced in large format, by comparing them with the Baudelairian ideal of the ‘painter of modern life’, which has permeated the Canadian artist’s practice and thinking from the outset. This book has the advantage of being a fluid conversation, an intellectual and sensitive dialogue between two photographers on the lookout for the ‘fantastic reality extracted from life’ that Baudelaire had glimpsed.