--- title: Modern Photo Master Jeff Wall Explores New Territory description: Jeff Wall’s work demonstrates that seeing requires an often unstated act of faith canonical: https://time.com/4109214/jeff-wall-new-works/ author: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-17T09:00:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:40:03.318Z article:section: World og:title: See How Jeff Wall Still Matters in Photography og:description: Jeff Wall’s work demonstrates that seeing requires an often unstated act of faith og:url: https://time.com/4109214/jeff-wall-new-works/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18d35a31df38c8d1/698870aacd1bbaa1286fe115/17073wall2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jeff Wall-Marian Goodman Gallery-06 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See How Jeff Wall Still Matters in Photography twitter:description: Jeff Wall’s work demonstrates that seeing requires an often unstated act of faith twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18d35a31df38c8d1/698870aacd1bbaa1286fe115/17073wall2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Modern Photo Master Jeff Wall Explores New Territory > Sponsored content. 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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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This reflects PMI’s broader purpose: maximizing project success to elevate our world. ### Sources * Project Management Institute | [pmi.org](/c/pmi-2026-q3/home?i=e6b7aa08-6c3d-44c3-8c8c-96b76f6723cd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition" | [pmi.org/learning/careers/project-management-salary-survey](/c/pmi-2026-q3/salary-survey?i=e6b7aa08-6c3d-44c3-8c8c-96b76f6723cd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Global Project Management Talent Gap" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/global-project-management-talent-gap](/c/pmi-2026-q3/talent-gap?i=e6b7aa08-6c3d-44c3-8c8c-96b76f6723cd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=e6b7aa08-6c3d-44c3-8c8c-96b76f6723cd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse Report 2025: Boosting Business Acumen” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/boosting-business-acumen](/c/pmi-2026-q3/business-acumen?i=e6b7aa08-6c3d-44c3-8c8c-96b76f6723cd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse of the Profession® 2026: Driving Success in Complex Projects” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/driving-success-in-complex-projects](/c/pmi-2026-q3/complex-projects?i=e6b7aa08-6c3d-44c3-8c8c-96b76f6723cd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E.” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/path-to-project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/more-mindset?i=e6b7aa08-6c3d-44c3-8c8c-96b76f6723cd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI Education Foundation, PMIEF 2024 Annual Report, [pmi.org PMIEF 2024 Annual Report (PDF)](/c/pmi-2026-q3/pmief-report?i=e6b7aa08-6c3d-44c3-8c8c-96b76f6723cd&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional) by [Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa](https://time.com/author/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa/) ## Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Nov 17, 2015 9:00 AM UTC  Listener 2015 Listener 2015Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery by [Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa](https://time.com/author/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa/) ## Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Nov 17, 2015 9:00 AM UTC Immediately upon entry into Marian Goodman’s North Gallery, one encounters a somber gray-framed black-and-white print titled _Approach_ (2014). It measures 78 by 97 in., and it glimmers in silvery tones along a slightly darkened wall. It shows a middle-aged black woman wrapped in a blanket approaching a low-slung row of cardboard boxes stacked in the lee of a high wall under streetlights. A right foot protrudes outward from a gap in the boxes, beneath a tarpaulin sheet that doubles as a curtain. The woman peers steadily toward the shadowed recesses, within which a hidden person appears to sleep rough on the street. To the left of this photograph hangs _Changing Room_ (2014), in which a woman stands behind a curtain in the narrow, brightly lit confines of a cubicle in Barney’s New York. She is struggling into a florid patterned dress that gradually engulfs the upper half of her body, its stunted silhouette making the shape of a budgerigar squatting atop her head. She seems to be concealing a second red dress beneath this first, and an identical red dress with a cream floral print hangs opposite her on a rail. A long gray woolen coat rests on a stool nearby, and she is hidden behind the cubicle’s curtain but revealed to the camera lens, whether caught in a moment of theft or retail therapy, the photograph itself does not confirm. These two photographs form part of a measured and statuesque installation of eight works, seven of them new, in Jeff Wall’s latest solo show _New Works_, which opened in New York and London. They are emblematic of Wall’s large-scale, uncanny and ambiguous images, which have marked him out as a major artist since his earliest work in 1978\. Wall’s photographs are arresting and immersive, detailed enough to sustain extended close readings, but large enough to hold the attention of a viewer many feet away.  Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery Wall’s photographs have covered a spectrum of subject matters from otherworldly scenes ([_The Flooded Grave_](http://www.stedelijk.nl/upload/persbeeld/jeff-wall/JW%5FThe%20Flooded%20Grave%5F1998-2000%5Ftransparency%20in%20lightbox%5F228,5%20x%20282%20x%2025cm%5Fcourtesy%20of%20the%20artist%5Foriginal.jpg)_,_ 1998-2000) to random incidents ([_Boy Falls From Tree_](http://www.stedelijk.nl/upload/persbeeld/jeff-wall/JW%5FBoy-falls-from-tree%5F-2010%5Fcolourphotograph%5F234.3x313.7x5.1cm%5Fcourtesytheartist%5Foriginal.jpg)_,_ 2010) to elaborately reconstructed images that incorporate references to other artists ([_Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Prologue_](http://www.stedelijk.nl/upload/persbeeld/jeff-wall/JW%5FInvisible%20man%20by%20Ralp%20Ellison,%20the%20Prologue%5F1999-2000%5Ftransparencyinlightbox%5F174x250,5cm%5Fcourtesytheartist%5Foriginal.jpg)_,_ 1999-2000). For more than 20 years, these photographs were printed onto transparencies mounted within light boxes, although Wall has since discontinued this practice in favor of equally large black-and-white, or digital color prints. Throughout this period, Wall has created works that locate their action at the threshold between the self-evident and the nonsensical, seeking to enrich and expand our attention toward the specific properties of photographic experience. His gnomic titles and deceptively straightforward compositions combine to raise a multitude of questions, for which the recalcitrant stillness of a photograph can provide no conclusive answer. In _Staircase & two rooms_ (2014), a triptych of vertical photographs is arranged side-by-side like an irregular landscape in which a middle-aged man leans against the inside of a doorframe, the bulk of his body concealed by the opened door. His eyes seem to peer outward from his single frame toward the central panel of the staircase, beyond which a second man reclines along the verge of a double bed in the third image of the piece. We might presume that the first man listens with disquiet to the noise of the building, and that the central staircase separates him from the source of his distraction. But the second man in the final panel rests in a room with two doors, one of which is cracked slightly ajar, leaving open the possibility of an illicit tryst between two lovers separated by a triptych, but conceivably occupying adjoining rooms. The photographs in _New Works_ describe a variety of incidents that orbit around themes of domesticity, property, separateness, territory and identity. They comprise jarring conjunctions of sublimity and repression, as in _Daybreak_ (2011), where a group of slumbering Bedouin are pictured during a radiant dawn at the foot of an olive grove in front of an Israeli prison. The pictures elicit instinctual assumptions that are complicated by subtle details, as in _Approach,_ where the new sheen on the woman’s black flats belies the notion that she is homeless, just as her hesitancy complicates the presumption that she is familiar with the scene that she approaches.  Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery Wall’s work demonstrates with eloquence and persistence that imagination is foundational to the reception of visual facts, or that seeing requires an often unstated act of faith. His works continue to mine the anonymous events that account for the vast majority of everyday life, showing us in whimsical and poetic ways that these can be both emphatic and elliptical, arresting and irreducible, simple and yet utterly strange. **_Jeff Wall_**_’s_ New Works _is on show at the_ [**_Marian Goodman Gallery_**](http://mariangoodman.com/exhibition/2410/installation-views) _in New York until Dec. 19, 2015._ **_Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa_** _is a photographer, writer and the editor of_ [The Great Leap Sideways](http://www.thegreatleapsideways.com/)_._  Approach 2014 Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery  Changing room, 2014 Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery  Mask maker, 2015 Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery  Property line, 2015 Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery  Listener 2015 Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery  Staircase and two rooms, 2014 Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery  Office Hallway, Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1997 Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery  Daybreak, 2011 Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4109214/jeff-wall-new-works/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4109214/jeff-wall-new-works/"},"headline":"Modern Photo Master Jeff Wall Explores New Territory","datePublished":"2015-11-17T09:00:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:40:03.318Z","description":"Jeff Wall’s work demonstrates that seeing requires an often unstated act of faith","url":"https://time.com/4109214/jeff-wall-new-works/","keywords":["LightBox","New York","photography"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18d35a31df38c8d1/698870aacd1bbaa1286fe115/17073wall2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18d35a31df38c8d1/698870aacd1bbaa1286fe115/17073wall2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jeff Wall-Marian Goodman Gallery-06","caption":"Listener 2015","creditText":"Cathy Carver, courtesy of Jeff Wall and Marian Goodman Gallery","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4109214/jeff-wall-new-works/","name":"Modern Photo Master Jeff Wall Explores New Territory"}}]}] ```