Artist field note

Wolfgang Tillmans

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

Appears inPhotography

02 / 05

Concorde Grid

1997

The supersonic plane appears again and again, distant and almost banal; technological wonder becomes everyday looking.

The five in one idea

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