- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Taschen; illustrated edition edition (Dec 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3822819840
- ISBN-13: 978-3822819845
- Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 18.8 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,232,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
These two new works are united by the fact that each of the twentysomething artists earned a place in this fall's round-up of best new photographers at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In a book devoid of text (even the copyright information is on the back cover), Billingham presents an extended album of his family's life in the projects near Birmingham, England. The brutally frank snapshots center on Ray, Richard's alcholic father, Liz, his chainsmoking mother, and his brother Jason. Mostly disturbing yet sometimes beautiful, the haunting images seem to carry the burden of documentation, declaring their existence to be a necessary proof. Tillmans, a German photographer who has lived and worked in Hamburg, London, and New York intermingles without distinction his art images and his fashion and portrait work for magazines. This catalog for a one person show at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg collects a diverse selection of his images. Sequenced by Tillmans, the catalog places a special emphasis on the landscapes and still lifes that have often been overlooked by critics who have labeled Tillmans the documentarian of an urban Generation X. The three short essays offer some of the most cogent writing on the photographer to date. Both books belong in larger libraries collecting contemporary artists' works.?Eric Bryant, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Tillmans mixes photographs with large size inkjet prints and actual magazine pages. This volume features his work, which has been exhibited in art galleries and museums across Europe and the US - as well as appearing in leading fashion and music magazines.
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A visual feast, Feb 23 2012
By C. B Collins Jr. - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wolfgang Tillmans (Hardcover)
This book of the photography of Wolfgang Tillmans is full of image of people. He often concentrates on still life, or cityscape, or interiors, but this volume is full of people. They are young people, wearing odds and ends that reflect their youth culture and their sense of style and energy. The photographs include fashion photography but in the unique style of Tillmans which is a mixture of documentation, diary, portraiture, and spontaneity. His sense of color is superb But are these photographs really a diary spontaneously developed from odds and ends? Not really. They are carefully constructed and are meant to evoke a range of meanings to the viewer. He is able to seamlessly mix the found composition with the constructed composition. All of Tillmans' books are packed with photographs. No doubt he is prolific but there is another reason for so many photographs in one book. The photographs evoke narrative in the viewer. We try to link them together. We see a photograph of a handsome man followed by one of a man's genitals. Are these the genitals of the man in the previous photograph? We are not told. This layering and linking photographs evokes stories and situations. I find that I imagine Tillmans as an actor in each scene, photographing and experiencing at the same time, and fully connected to the folks in the picture. Is there such a thing as gay imagery? A gay man's eye will capture the world through a gay filter and thus some of the work is homoerotic in a natural experiential way. Gay life and heterosexual life bleed together in the youth culture and the chaotic energy of young adulthood is well documented. His photography can best be described in one word `feast'.
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