"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans, To look without fear, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., September 12, 2022-January 1, 2023, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Spring-Fall 2023, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fall 2023-Spring 2024"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Four decades: A chronology / Phil Taylor and Andrew Vielkind -- The wandering image / Roxana Marcoci -- The world is vast, but photography is flat / Clement Cheroux -- Toucans / Keller Easterling -- Soldiers / Sophie Hackett -- The installation as invitation to play / Yve-Alain Bois -- I saw a picture in a magazine / Paul Flynn -- Simultaneity / Oluremi C. Onabanjo -- Blurring the perimeter of the darkroom / Quentin Bajac -- The day came fat with an apple in its mouth / Durga Chew-Bose -- Strings of life / Phil Taylor -- Camera as advocate / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Beyond belief / Michelle Kuo -- Time flows all over / Stuart Comer -- On paper / Wolfgang Tillmans -- Four decades: A chronology / Phil Taylor and Andrew Vielkind -- Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art. Acknowledgments -- Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.
Summary:
"A visionary creator and intrepid polymath, Wolfgang Tillmans unites formal inventiveness with an ethical orientation that attends to the most pressing issues of life today. While his work transcends the bounds of any single artistic discipline, he is best known for his wide-ranging photographic output. From trenchant documents of social movements to windowsill still lifes, sensitive portraits to architectural studies, ecstatic images of nightlife to cameraless abstractions, astronomical observations to intimate nudes, he has explored seemingly every genre of photography imaginable, continually experimenting with ways to make new pictures and deepen the viewer's experience. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Tillmans's work at the Museum of Modern Art, this copiously illustrated volume surveys four decades of the artist's career. An outstanding group of writers offer diverse essays addressing key aspects of his multifaceted practice, and a new text by Tillmans himself elucidates the distinctive methodology behind his system of presenting photographs."-- Publisher's description, page [4] of wrapper.
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