Literature
Wolfgang Tillmans, London: Phaidon, 2014, p. 117
Wolfgang Tillmans, London: Tate, 2017, p. 113
Wolfgang Tillmans, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2017, p. 198
Artist Biography
Wolfgang Tillmans
German • 1968
Since 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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COLLECTION OF HANS KEMNA

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Wolfgang Tillmans

nackt

2003
Chromogenic print, mounted.
Image: 40.5 x 26.8 cm (15 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Frame: 43.5 x 33.5 cm (17 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Titled, dated, annotated, numbered and signed 'nackt ph 2003 pr WT 03/2004 3/10 + 1 Wolfgang Tillmans' in ink on the verso.

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