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.

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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.

For artist Wolfgang Tillmans, portraiture is a collaborative process between photographer and accomplice. While Tillmans' photographs are often referred to as casual, they are actually the result of a carefully constructed process of engagement with his models. Each sitter, be they a world-famous rock star or a family member, projects both vulnerability and dignity. Presented here are a selection of some of the best of these portraits, taken between 1988 to 2001, and chosen by Tillmans himself. Subjects include filmmaker John Waters, architect Rem Koolhaas, musicians Moby and Michael Stipe, actresses Irm Hermann and Chloë Sevigny, as well as the artist's family and friends.

„I wanted to show how cars appear in typical street view, which is rarely the subject of photographs. Cars are usually avoided in photography - one waits until a car has exited a view. The ordinary presence of cars is rarely worthy of representation. It’s always the special car, or the extreme traffic jam or, of course, the exciting crash that is being pictured. The Cars pays tribute to the shapes and forms we look at every day. How much time we spend with them, sitting inside them, the endless hours we stare at a dashboard. Even if we don’t own a car ourselves, their presence is unavoidable. Cars are everywhere. Their sheer number is the most crazy thing about them. They appear in our lives with excessive omnipresence. In their volume cars intrude upon public space, and the way they occupy streets and open areas is rarely challenged. Virtually wherever there are people, there are cars and they are visually intermingling in whatever we see. We are looking at the world from a car and cars are in the foreground, the background or in between of what is in our view. Where they are, they add a tone, a note, a presence, a noise to the setting they’re in. [.]“

Wolfgang Tillmans, the first German-born artist, and first photographer, ever to be awarded Britain's prestigious Turner Prize, has become, in recent years, "Mr. Zeitgeist," as the German magazine ARt has called him. His best-known photographs, such as portraits of friends and youth culture denizens, stillifes, images of garments, and the "Concorde" series, have been shown in exhibitions and magazines throughout the world. Presenting him, however, as far more than a documentarian of Gen-X and youth culture, this major monograph on his work will present primarily unpublished land and cityscapes that have been manipulated with light during the printing process, images created without negatives, only by the use of light on photographic paper, and other abstractions. The book also includes a variety of more familiar works in which Tillmans examines the abstract qualities of nature and common, man-made goods. Wolfgang Tillmans is a remarkable publication on one of the most important artists of his generation.