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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.
Artist field note
Wolfgang Tillmans
A photograph can be monumental, disposable, abstract or intimate.
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The five in one idea
Tillmans expanded photography by treating every mode of image - snapshot, abstraction, document, print - as equally available.