Artist field note

Wolfgang Tillmans

A photograph can be monumental, disposable, abstract or intimate.

Appears inPhotography

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Lutz & Alex sitting in the trees

1992

Two friends perch casually in branches. Youth culture is pictured without fashion photography’s usual hierarchy.

The five in one idea

Tillmans expanded photography by treating every mode of image - snapshot, abstraction, document, print - as equally available.