Jeff Wall Photographs 1978-2004Exhibtion at Tate Modern, . Information and resources on Jeff Wall at Tate Online.
Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004
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Detail from Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) 1992

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'The young boy, whose head is blown open and has lost his hands, is in a way the central figure, and he is saying something that he feels is urgent to the older captain but because the captain’s dead too, he's also moved into another dimension, one in which he doesn't have to answer. There's no urgency – he's contemplating this boy's questioning nature, or contemplating the urgency itself, who knows.' - Jeff Wall