Wolfgang Tillmans: to look without fear / Roxana Marcoci, Clément Chéroux, Keller Easterling, Sophie Hackett, Yve-Alain Bois, Paul Flynn, Oluremi Onabanjo, Quentin Bajac, Durga Chew-Bose, Phil Taylor, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Michelle Kuo, Stuart Comer, Wolfgang Tillmans.

"This publication, conceived in conjunction with a major exhibition, is devoted to the wide-ranging practice of Wolfgang Tillmans, encompassing photography, installation, print media, video, and sound and light work. His work offers a perceptive investigation into what constitutes an image, how that image functions in different contexts-aesthetic, activist-and how it proliferates technologically and socially. This publication will offer the most comprehensive account of Tillmans's career to date, while presenting new research and analytical frameworks through which to understand the artist's contributions to contemporary art and the history of photography. Our review of the existing literature on Tillmans revealed a tendency to rehash received ideas about the artist, often focusing on the same issues without looking closely at the work itself. Tillmans's tendency to reframe pictures from his repertory across time within new constellations confounds attempts to read the development of his career in a linear fashion. While this conceptual innovation has its merits in his practice, it has also resulted in a pattern of observers avoiding close consideration of the semantics of his images, and the specificity of the artist's groupings of ideas in distinct contexts. This volume seeks to remedy this lacuna by commissioning essays on specific themes and issues in Tillmans's oeuvre that need further consideration"-- Provided by publisher.