J eff Wall is a photography legend, born September 29, 1946 in Vancouver, on the east coast of Canada, where he still lives and works, in peace,
“in a vast property facing the Pacific Ocean”
.
He is also “The Riddler”, this artist of enigma, the invisible man who we imagine crossing incognito one of his very large formats with a mystery often highlighted by light boxes.
Life is on hold there, in a city still under construction, in a vast nature that encompasses everything.
The gesture is interrupted in this
“decisive moment”
dear to Cartier-Bresson and to all photographers: a boy who falls from a tree, a declasse sitting on the sidewalk who makes his little can of milk explode with a pressure of the hand.
Eyes meet without seeing each other like in silent films where the camera serves as the final judgment.
Society is surprised in its daily walk, in its non-events, in its rituals: a crowd walking aimlessly in the city, idle young people in front of...
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