Jeff Wall: “I Begin by Not Photographing”

Jul 04, 2011

Michael Zhang

Here’s a short inspirational video featuring Canadian photographer Jeff Wall in which he talks about his method of allowing his eyes to do “photography” first before using his camera.

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