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Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear

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Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear offers the most comprehensive account of Tillmans' wide-ranging career, spanning photography, installation, print media and video. This richly illustrated volume, published alongside a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, surveys four decades of the artist's work, from social movement documentation and nightlife imagery to cameraless abstractions and intimate portraits. Insightful essays and a text by Tillmans himself explore his inventive methods and ethical engagement with pressing contemporary issues, revealing how he has transformed photography and modern art.
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This publication will appeal to enthusiasts of contemporary art, photography students and professionals, as well as readers interested in visual culture, ethics in art, and the intersections of activism and creativity.

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Encompassing photography, installation, print media, video and more, this publication is the most comprehensive account of Tillmans' wide-ranging career to date.

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, ecstatic images of nightlife to cameraless abstractions, sensitive portraits to architectural studies, astronomical phenomena to intimate nudes, he has explored seemingly every genre of photography imaginable, continually experimenting with how to make new pictures and deepen the viewer's experience.

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Tillmans' 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 threads of his multifaceted practice, and a new text by Tillmans himself elucidates the distinctive methodology behind his system of presenting photographs. Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear grants readers new insight into the work of an artist who has not only changed the way photography is exhibited but pointed contemporary art in dynamic new directions.

Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) is among the most influential contemporary artists, and the impact of his work registers across the arts, intersecting with fashion, music, architecture, the performing arts, and activism. Tillmans is the recipient of the Turner Prize (2000) and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2015). His foundation, Between Bridges, supports the advancement of democracy, international understanding, the arts, and LGBTQ rights.

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Critics praise Tillmans for creating a dynamic, moving form of image-making that transcends traditional photography. Alex Kitnick of Artforum highlights the fluidity and adaptability of his images, while Sebastian Smee from the Washington Post commends the humour, compassion and beauty within his work. Jerry Saltz of New York Magazine: Vulture describes Tillmans' oeuvre as a new sublime, reflecting a shift in how we perceive grandeur and the vastness of life.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633451117

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 400 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Julia Bryan-Wilson
  • Contributions by Yve-Alain Bois
  • Contributions by Stuart Comer
  • Edited by Roxana Marcoci
  • Contributions by Quentin Bajac
  • Contributions by Clément Chéroux
  • Contributions by Durga Chew-Bose
  • Contributions by Keller Easterling
  • Contributions by Paul Flynn

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 300.0mm

Weight: 2200g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Roxana Marcoci is Senior Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Clément Chéroux, Chief Curator of Photography, MoMA, and former Senior Curator of Photography, SFMOMA

Sophie Hackett, Curator of Photography, AGO

Keller Easterling, Professor and Director of the Master of Environmental Design Program, Yale University.

Quentin Bajac, Director, Jeu de Paume

Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study

Julia Bryan-Wilson, Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of California, Berkeley

Durga Chew-Bose, Essayist and Critic, Author of Too Much and Not the Mood, editor at SSENSE

Stuart Comer, Chief Curator of Media & Performance, MoMA

Oluremi Onabanjo, Independent Curator and Scholar

Paul Flynn, Writer, Author of Good as You

Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA

Phil Taylor, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, MoMA.

Andrew Vielkind, former Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow

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