Jeff Wall (Contemporary Artists)  

Jeff Wall adopts the 19th-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his painter contemporaries as a "painter of modern life" to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted onto light boxes which diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and "constructed" social situations. Jeff Wall is foremost among the pioneering artists who since the late 1960s have brought photography to the forefront of contemporary art.