SFMOMA
151 3rd St
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Jeff Wall, Milk, Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art
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Oct 27, 2007 – Jan 27, 2008
Mondays–Tuesdays (11am–5:45pm)
Thursdays (11am–8:45pm)
Fridays–Sundays (11am–5:45pm)
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- Price
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$12.50
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Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes, whether drawn from memory or art history, of enigmatic figures in ambiguously emotional spaces. His large-scale cinematographic approach to image making — along with the vanguard work of Cindy Sherman and others — helped break through the art world's unofficial moratorium on staged photography. In doing so, Wall also re-contextualized photography as a medium capable of achieving the grandness of classical paintings and film, without sacrificing subtlety or relying on photojournalistic tropes.
