ABSTRACT
The Conclusion – ‘Photography’s negotiation of the terrain of the picture’ – will draw together the threads of the book’s central narrative concerning Wall’s interrogation of the ‘Western Concept of the Picture’ and the insights gained through the close analyses of key works. This chapter highlights Wall’s contributions to the development of art photography characterised by his strategic revival of the ‘Picture’ after the demise of modernism, his introduction of a self-reflexive criticality to photography practice, and his expansion of the conceptual and technical territory of the medium.
