Wolfgang Tillmans - Still Life - 2002

SUPER BEAUTIFUL WOLFGANG TILLMANS PUBLICATION.

ONE OF THE MOST SCARCE ONES BY THE FAMOUS GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER AND ARTIST.

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Tillmans is famous for many fantastic artist and photobooks like "Concorde" (Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, A History, volume 2, page 170).

The German-born, London and Berlin based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is among the most celebrated of contemporary photographers. Winner of the prestigious Turner Prize and highly influential among younger photographers, Tillmans has also been criticized by many in the world of photography for a body of work that often appears to erase the line between commercial and art photography, snapshot and "print". His interest in youth culture has been described as voyeuristic and exploitative, and yet he has also been widely credited for his ability to define a new aesthetic of intimacy and to celebrate the individuality of a generation that others are happy to write off as "X." Like the work of Nan Goldin, with whom he is often compared, Tillmans`s early photography featured his friends and their parties in an effort to capture moments of intimacy within the constraint-free lifestyles of youth cultures. But Tillmans`s interest in alternative concepts of beauty, sexuality, and politics is more sociological and distanced. Wolfgang Tillmans: Still Life is the catalogue of the first museum exhibition of his photography in the United States. The show`s organizer, Benjamin Paul, has chosen to emphasize Tillmans`s interest in reconsidering such traditional genres as landscape, portrait, and still life within the context of contemporary visual culture. By focusing on the still lifes, Paul emphasizes a subset of the artist`s work that is at once lushly beautiful, surprisingly humanistic in its attention to the trappings of lived lives, and particularly well suited to his exploration and exploitation of the aestheticizing so central to both traditional still life and commercial advertising.

In his creative artistic work, Wolfgang Tillmans revolutionized the medium of photography in an unprecedented way and opened it up towards other media.
Beginning in the early nineties, Tillmans documented the people and situations in his immediate surroundings in scenes from London, New York, or Berlin, creating the portrait of a new generation in a style-defining manner. Since the late nineties he has been creating a greater number of cameraless, abstract images that develop from his direct work with and on photographic paper, some of which acquire a sculptural, object-like character. He has also been developing innovative, anti-hierarchical installations of his photographs in space in exhibition contexts.

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2002. First edition, first printing.

Spiral binding. 250 x 230 mm. 61 pages. 36 colour photographs. Photos: Wolfgang Tillmans. Text in English.

Condition:
Fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing. Inside and outside with light trace of use, but with no remarkable defects. Overall fine condition.

Great Wolfgang Tillmans title - super rare and very sought-after.