Wolfgang Tillmans Livres

In seinem dritten Buch bei TASCHEN erkundet Starfotograf und Turner-Preisträger Wolfgang Tillmans eine weitere Ebene der uns sichtbaren Welt. Der Titel Truth Study Center ist ein ironischer Hinweis auf das Paradoxon, von unserem Wunsch eine universale Wahrheit zu finden, und der Unmöglichkeit dies zu tun. Von evokativen Aktstudien über die Portraits des britischen Premierministers Tony Blair bis hin zu Ansichten des Planeten Venus, wie er sich vor die Sonne schiebt - erstmals ist hier das volle Spektrum von Tillmans Universum, von zwei Buchdeckeln gebändigt, versammelt. Darüber hinaus zeigt das Buch eine aufregende Auswahl neuer abstrakter Arbeiten, deren lebhafte Farben und Komposition sowohl körperliche als auch atmosphärische Empfindungen beim Betrachter hervorrufen. Vom Nachtleben zum Stilleben - Tillmans, der Erfinder der snapshot-aesthetic, zeigt uns eine andere Seite der Welt, in der wir leben.

Chefs d'uvre L'exposition d'ouverture du centre Pompidou-Metz.

An in-depth look at the iconic work of the internationally recognized photographer.

Apart from his seminal portraits, party images, and still lifes that gained him recognition in the nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans (1968 in Remscheid) long ago began dealing with more abstract motifs. In the past decade he has consistently developed his approach to create totally non-representational works that examine themes such as the process of exposure and image supports. From the delicate veils of color in Blushes and Freischwimmer or the sculptural paper drops made of rolled-up photographic paper, to the colorfully compelling works of the Lighter series, the photograph itself--essentially divorced from its reproductive function--becomes the objet d'art, as the book here, designed by the artist himself, impressively demonstrates. --Publisher description.

The first in a new series on evolving forms of communication This book tracks the relationship between binary code and Leibniz's Monadology; the technological and cosmological aspects of non-Western writing systems; and the power of the alphabet song.

Hardcover. Gray paper-covered boards with title printed in black on cover and spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by and collected by Wolfgang Tillmans. Designed by Wolfgang Tillmans. 80 pp., with black-and-white plates throughout. 12 x 8-1/2 inches.

Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo-imaging with greater range than any other artist of his generation. From early portraits of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a camera or works made with a photocopier, he has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. For this collection of photos, his fifth book with TASCHEN, Tillmans edited his previous four books into one stream of intersecting perspectives on life around the turn of the millenium. Keeping his original layouts intact, he added some new works, bringing the scope of the publication to the present day.