Why the photographer Jeff Wall relies on memory—not his camera—to make his art

Picture for Women, 1979, transparency in lightbox

Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Md., is hosting five decades worth of art by Canadian Jeff Wall, a photographer who begins a work “by not photographing.”

(Image credit: Jeff Wall/© Jeff Wall; Courtesy the artist and Glenstone Museum)

Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Md., is hosting five decades worth of art by Canadian Jeff Wall, a photographer who begins a work “by not photographing.”