Jeff Wall is a Canadian artist most renowned for his cibachrome back-lit photographs. He was one of the early influences on the Vancouver School of photography, and his work often features the blend of urban decay and natural beauty that often appear side-by-side in Vancouver, placed against an industrially blank backdrop. He did some experimentation with conceptual art while in college but did not start producing works until he was 31, when his first photo-transparencies came out. His initial works referred to philosophical issues at work in representation and art history. One of Jeff Wall's more well known works isMimic (1982), which features an Asian man and a white couple walking toward the camera in a color transparency. The white man is mocking the Asian man by pulling his eye down into a slanted shape, in a recreation of a social exchange that Wall actually witnessed. The recreation is designed to capture the tension of the moment, a typical feature of Wall's photo-transparencies. Read Less