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Wolfgang Tillmans
Total Eclipse of the Sun
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- $8,000 - 12,000
Lot Details
Chromogenic print.
2006
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Overall 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (64.8 x 54.6 cm)
Overall 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (64.8 x 54.6 cm)
Signed, titled, numbered, inscribed and dated 'Wolfgang Tillmans, Total Eclipse of the Sun, 2/3 + 1 ph 03/2006, pr WT 04/2006' on the verso.
Photographed in 2006 and printed in 2006, this work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.
Photographed in 2006 and printed in 2006, this work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.
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Wolfgang Tillmans
German | 1968Since the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium. Challenging the indexical nature traditionally associated with photography, his abstract and representational photographic bodies of work each in their own way put forward the notion of the photograph as object—rather than as a record of reality. While achieving his breakthrough with portraits and lifestyle photographs, documenting celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture, since the turn of the millennium the German photographer has notably created abstract work such as the Freischwimmer series, which is made in the darkroom without a camera.Seamlessly integrating genres, subject matters, techniques and exhibition strategies, Tillmans is known for photographs that pair playfulness and intimacy with a persistent questioning of dominant value and hierarchy structures of our image-saturated world. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer to receive the prestigious Turner Prize.
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