Jeff Wall

The Destroyed Room (1978)

"Wall's work is underpinned by the considerable body of his own theoretical writing that advances an argument for the necessity of a pictorial art. Much of the work pictures social tension, cities with changing demographics, intersections, suburbs and dead zones. Other work is much more enigmatic, fantastic and seemingly personal. Wall's photographs are complicated productions involving cast, sets and crews as well as digital and computer postshoot manipulation. They have been characterized as one-frame cinematic productions rather than photographs in the ordinary sense. They address the history of painting more than the history of photography."

Text taken from: The Canadian Encyclopedia