![]() ![]() He had several unframed photographs, mostly of young people they were hanging out, sharing secrets, smoking, and dancing. debut in a group show at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, I did not recognize what he was doing as photography or even as art. Tillmans’s photos - influenced as much by raves and post-punk as the fall of the Berlin Wall - broke through that malaise. Having fought for its high-art status for more than 150 years, photography, by the late 1980s, was overinformed by postmodernists who made work that mainly only the art world liked. It is no coincidence that the best photographer of his generation came out of such a varied background. ( His album from last year is great!) He has been a performer, a filmmaker, an activist, and a DJ. He shot the album cover for Frank Ocean’s Blonde, contributes to i-D magazine, and makes music. In 2000, at age 32, he became the first photographer to win the Turner Prize, and he has been the subject of two Tate exhibitions. The 54-year-old German is much more than a photographer he’s a visionary polymath who has melted the borders between high and low, insider and outsider, commercial and esoteric. The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of Tillmans’s work, “To look without fear,” is a similar summoning of abundance. The rhapsodic rapport Tillmans has with his subjects gives his work a tenderness that seems almost sacred. But these aren’t the usual club-kid, gay-bar, grunge-life photos. The people we see are often Tillmans’s friends: artists, musicians, designers, dancers. It’s in a man holding a naked woman’s legs apart and looking below her exposed bush to the grassy dunes beyond. It’s in an overhead shot of friends wearing camo and military garb sprawled on the beach in a frondlike configuration and cradling one another - becoming a single organism with tentacles. Tillmans intuited that the sublime had shifted, had alighted on us. His work conveys that the bigness of it all is no longer in God, the ceilings of the Renaissance, the grandeur of nature, or the allover fields of the Abstract Expressionists. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Turks and caicos islands, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay.Over the course of his 36-year career, the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has created what I think of as a new sublime. The seller is “bigkahunawaikiki” and is located in Honolulu, Hawaii. This item is in the category “Entertainment Memorabilia\Music Memorabilia\Rock
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