581 "Read the NYT article here":http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/magazine/25Wall.t.html?ref=magazine "I didn’t want to spend my time running around trying to find an event that could be made into a picture that would be good" Instead he set up elaborate scenes, shot with large format cameras, and made huge prints. Wall's visual language is borrowed from the language of street photographers, especially Gary Winogrand, but the work is anything but spontaneous, it is meticulously controlled and derivative, ultimately fake, and grandly successful as well. Comments? 41 2007-02-25T18:07:12Z 0 2008-03-12T12:55:33Z false 11805 false 8099 2007-02-28T16:39:19Z Chocolate City true false jeff_wall__visionary_or_lazy 1 2009-04-02T18:29:11Z 1299