And, in the decades just before and after World War II, some photographers who shared the Pictorial esthetic persevered: Clarence John Laughlin, Edmund Teske and Ralph Eugene Meatyard, to name a few.

Alexander Vasudevan, 'The photographer of modern life': Jeff Wall's photographic materialism, Cultural Geographies, Vol. 14, No. 4 (October 2007), ... the work of the Canadian artist Jeff Wall whose ...

TO the man in the street the results of photography are ‘pictures' of one sort or another, but mainly intended to be artistic. The eightieth Annual International Exhibition of the Royal ...