Picture for Women, 1979
Stereo, 1980
Young Workers, 1978–1983
The Outburst, 1989
The Goat, 1989
The Stumbling Block, 1991
The Vampires’ Picnic, 1991
Dead Troops Talk (A Vision after an Ambush of a Red Army
Patrol Near Moquor, Afghanistan, Winter 1986), 1992
Restoration, 1993
Flooded Grave, 2000
Further Reading
Auffermann, Verena, and Robert Linsley.Jeff Wall: The
Storyteller. Frankfurt: Schriften zur Sammlung des
Museums fu ̈r Moderne Kunst, 1992.
Brea, Jose Luis, and Massimo Cacciari.The Last Days: Span-
ish Pavilion of the Seville Universal Exhibition. Seville: 1992.
Brougher, Kerry.Jeff Wall. Los Angeles: The Museum of
Contemporary Art; and Zurich: Scalo Verlag, 1997.
Chevrier, Jean-Franc ̧ ois, and James Lingwood.Une autre
objectivite ́/Another objectivity. Milan: Idea Books, 1989.
de Duve, Thierry, Arielle Pelenc, and Boris Groys.Jeff
Wall. London: Phaidon Press, 1996.
Fischer-Jonge, Ingrid.Jeff Wall. New Orleans: The Louisi-
ana Museum, 1992.
Friedel, Hemut, and Jean-Franc ̧ ois Chevrier.Jeff Wall:
Space and Vision. Munich: Lenbachhaus, 1996.
Graham, Dan, and Jeff Wall.Children’s Pavilion. Lyon:
FRAC Rhone-Alpes, 1989.
Holmes, Willard. ‘‘Jeff Wall.’’Pluralities/1980/Pluralite ́s.
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1980.
Jardine, Alice, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Eric Michaud,
Elisabeth Sussman, and David Joselit.Utopia, Post-Uto-
pia. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1988.
Lebrero Stals, Jose ́, and Robert Linsley.Cameres Indis-
cretes. Barcelona: Centre d’Art Santa Monica, 1992.
Lebrero Stals, Jose ́.Jeff Wall. Madrid: Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1994.
Lussier, Re ́al, Marcel Brisebois, and Nicole Gingras.Jeff
Wall Oeuvres 1990–1998. Montre ́al: Musee ́ d’art con-
temporain, 1999.
Migayrou, Fre ́de ́ric.Jeff Wall. Villeurbanne: Le Noveau
Muse ́e, 1988.
Migayrou, Fre ́de ́ric.Jeff Wall: Simple Indication. Bruxelles:
La lettre vole ́e, 1995.
Nemiroff, Diana.Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada.
Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1983.
Newman, Michael.Jeff Wall. Tilburg: De Pont Foundation
for Contemporary Art, 1994.
Thielman, Andreas. Jeff Wall.Mu ̈nster: Westfalischer
Kunstverein, 1988.
van Winkel, Camiel.Jeff Wall: Landscapes and Other Pic-
tures. Wolfsburg: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 1996.
Wallace, Ian.Jeff Wall: Selected Works. Chicago: The
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, 1983.
Wallace, Ian.Jeff Wall: Transparencies. London: Institute
of Contemporary Art, London, 1984.
Zaslove, Jerry. ‘‘Faking Nature and Reading History: The
Mindfulness toward Reality in the Dialogical World of
Jeff Wall’s Pictures.’’Jeff Wall 1990. Vancouver: Van-
couver Art Gallery, 1990.WAR PHOTOGRAPHY
The twentieth century is unarguably the bloodiest
century in human history, with death tolls from
politically motivated conflicts between 175 and
200 million worldwide. Over the course of the cen-
tury, the nature of war blurred and then wrecked
older distinctions between battlefield and city, sol-
dier and civilian, peacetime and wartime, civili-
zation and barbarism. Technologically advanced
weapons of incalculably great destructive force
abetted (and did not eclipse) older forms of killing,
while science, industry, and bureaucratic manage-
ment came to define ‘‘modern’’ warfare. While the
severity of war in the twentieth century had pro-
found cultural and indeed, epistemic reach, at the
same time, war became foundational to the econo-
mies of industrially advanced states, and central to
political ideologies of all stripes.
A critical examination of war photography de-
mands that we accept war photographs as mediated
records and recorded mediations in equal measure,
by turns repositories of information and vaults of
testimony, aesthetic productions that alternately
magnify and diffuse acts of war, dramatize and
deflect them. A critical approach demands that we
register the complexity of the mandates to make
photographs of war, and that we not reduce war
photographs to overdetermined messages, illustrated
propaganda or self-reconciled rhetoric—much as
these are in evidence—or the opposite, innocent
guides through suffering. As aspects of visual culture,WALL, JEFF