Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans
has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his
friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky
photographs, to his abstract work, Tillmans has created a multitude
of iconic works in his unmistakable visual language, opening up new
paths and possibilities for both photography and contemporary art.
In 2000 he was the first photographer and the first non-British
person to receive the renowned Turner Prize. His first volume for
TASCHEN (1995) shows the young generation of the 1990s, of which
Tillmans himself was a member, in clubs, at Gay Pride, at fashion
events, and in everyday life. His dense, realistic photographs
conjure up tangible utopias of community and society and are
important documents of their time as well. With the follow-up
volume Burg (1998), Tillmans enriches his subject matter with
another array of beautiful, now iconic photographs. In truth study
center (2005), his images condense into even more subtle
compositions and now stand alongside completely abstract works.
Finally, Neue Welt (2012) documents Wolfgang Tillmans' travels
around the globe: from London to Tierra del Fuego, India, Papua New
Guinea, Saudi Arabia, and Central Africa, we follow his
ever-inquisitive eye for the realities of our planet, for social
situations with people and markets, technology and architecture,
and last but not least, nature and astronomy. For this volume, the
artist for the first time made use of the new possibilities of
digital photography. This enabled a density of information and
incisiveness hardly seen in photographs until then. This
40th-anniversary publication from TASCHEN combines the best of the
four books in one volume. Wolfgang Tillmans himself has compiled
this edition, partly redesigned it, added some recent works, and
written a new foreword. Paging through this collection of images,
which spans three decades, there are countless moments to delight
in, moments that are held not only in our collective memory but in
our individual ones too. About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we
started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has
become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms
around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and
aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of
incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40
series presents new editions of some of the stars of our
program-now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized
with the same commitment to impeccable production.
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