They suggest that the primal buzz we get from life comes from being with one another - that this is what makes us sublime. Tillmans has discussed using processes that “amplify voices that I feel need strengthening,” and “To look without fear” is full of amplifications of various tribes and subcultures. The overhead image of the friends in camo was what turned me around: the uniforms, the camaraderie, the proximity, the flesh. There were things previously published in i-D, a portrait of the dancehall singer Patra in a glowing red gown and dangly earrings, and a guy with his dick out sprawled on the floor as another guy places his foot on his head. 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. Want something different? Please convo us or contact us at the course of his 36-year career, the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has created what I think of as a new sublime. The frames you see in the photos are for display purposes only. Posters and artwork have a ¼ inch border. Great for framing or just hanging on a wall with poster hangers. It is archival quality, heavyweight paper. * POSTER PAPER is a smooth, matte finish. Postcards are printed edge to edge, there is no border. They fit nicely in a 5×7 frame if you use a border. Post Office Guidelines and are suitable for mailing. * POSTCARDS are printed on heavyweight card stock, 258 gsm. You must have a street address as we ship all tubes via UPS. Tubes cannot be shipped to PO Boxes, APO or FPO addresses. We choose the shipping carrier at the time of shipment. Postcards do not have tracking information, as this would add significantly to the cost of the item. Postcards ship free, via first class mail. Artwork 11 x 17 and larger ship rolled, in tubes. Artwork smaller than 11” x 17” ship in stay-flat protective envelopes. Thanks for stopping by.Ĭhoose your poster size and the choose your paper. Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. See our sizes and other important information below.
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