Tag: Wolfgang Tillmans

  • Wolfgang Tillmans’s Beautiful Awareness | The New Yorker

    Wolfgang Tillmans’s Beautiful Awareness

    Wolfgang Tillmans’s Beautiful Awareness

    The photographer talks about his first MOMA retrospective and how his prescient art flows from the act of paying attention.

    via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/wolfgang-tillmanss-beautiful-awareness

    It’s fascinating that, when I started using photography as my main medium and art, obviously, I had no idea that this medium would become so central to all life, all human life today. It’s crazy, like, people engage and do it every day in a way that was totally unheard of twenty-five years ago. Even though everybody is a photographer now, somehow my pictures still stay recognizable and still stay what they are, which, you know, can’t be taken for granted.

  • Wolfgang Tillmans Explores the Role of Art in a Post-Truth World – The New York Times

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    Wolfgang Tillmans Explores the Role of Art in a Post-Truth World – The New York Times

    LONDON — The German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has had a decades-long love affair with printed media. Since making his name in the 1990s taking pictures of night life in Hamburg, Germany, for the British counterculture magazine i-D, his work has appeared in countless publications — from fashion titles to newspaper supplements — as well as in galleries and museums. Mr. Tillmans has long been concerned with how his work appears on the printed page.