In Jeff Wall’s most renowned black and white photograph, Rear, 304 E. 25 Ave., May 20, 1.14 & 1.17 P.M. (1997) a young woman is standing underneath a cheap wooden patio. Here, as with almost all of Wall’s works, we are at a frozen moment in a larger narrative. The shabbily attired woman stands before the door of a room on the lower level of a lower class abode, seemingly waiting for it to open. Her stance is solemn and depressed. This instant is tucked into the shadow of the architectural construction; Jeff Wall has created a moment of trepidation that arrests the viewer. Wall begins by first imagining the scene before meticulously recreating the setting for his shot in tightly controlled stagings. The resulting images are deeply personal, with a subject matter derived from real situations eliciting pathos.