Wolfgang Tillmans (born August 15, 1968) is a German photographer, whose lives in Berlin and London.

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  • Wolfgang Tillmans (born August 15, 1968) is a German photographer, whose lives in Berlin and London. Born in Remscheid in Germany, Tillmans lived and worked in Hamburg at the end of the 1980s before moving to England. He studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art from 1990 to 1992. Since 1996 he has lived and worked in London. About his strong ties to both countries Tillmann said in a 2007 interview with Robert Ayers from ARTINFO: "I fell in love with England and with London when I was there on a language trip when I was 14. That coincided with me discovering Culture Club and the New Romantics and the whole of street culture. And the language and everything else speaks to me. But I don't think I'll ever lose my German-ness. You never lose the culture that you're from. England worked very well as an antidote to my German-ness. It's a good combination for me." Tillmans has published work in magazines such as i-D and Vogue, but he is mostly known for his use of multiple photographic genres (and the mixing of those genres) and his unique gallery presentation. Since the mid-1980s, Wolfgang Tillmans has reinterpreted representational genres from portraiture to still life to landscape through the medium of photography. He invented a presentational practice that engages the dynamics of space, varying the size of his photographs based on the specific spatial setting of a venue and producing them as large inkjet prints and large framed C-prints. First recognized in the early 1990s for photographs of friends, street fashion and gay subculture, he has developed a highly distinctive style of image making that freely embraces a broad range of subjects—from experiences of the everyday, the homoerotic snapshot, to abstractions that result from experiments with the photographic process. His innovative exhibition strategies are unique and distinctive, and have changed the way in which photographic images are read and received in art galleries. An aspect of his artistic practice is to assume a curatorial role—he creates configurations with his photographs that draw formal, symbolic and ephemeral connections. His installations encourage active audience engagement and ask viewers to consider their own experiences within Tillmans’s visual world. One of Tillmans's other chief modes of presentation is through the book form, and his numerous collections (see bibliography below) offer both extended studies of specific artistic interests such as in the book Concorde, while other books function in a way similar to his gallery installations and include images from several bodies of work, though Tillmans himself might say they are all a part of the same body. Tillmans won the Turner Prize in 2000. He is the first photographer to have won the Turner Prize (and controversially, the first non-British citizen to have done so) 1. (en)
  • Wolfgang Tillmans (* 15. August 1968 in Remscheid) ist ein in London und Berlin lebender deutscher Fotograf und Kunstprofessor. (de)
  • Wolfgang Tillmans, né en 1968 à Remscheid en Allemagne, vivant et travaillant à Londres, est un photographe et un plasticien contemporain. En 1992 son travail est publié par le magazine britannique I-D. En 2000 Tillmans réalise une série de de photographies pour le journal britannique the Big Issue vendu à la criée par les SDF. Il refuse de vendre ses œuvres à Charles Saatchi, mais fait poser ses amis Kate Moss ou Michael Stipe, leader de R.E.M. et accepte les commandes des magazines de mode les plus conservateurs. En 2002 il signe une exposition au Palais de Tokyo. À l'instar de Nan Goldin ou de Larry Clark, son univers semble peuplé de ravers perclus de drogue et de fatigue accumulée, d'hommes qui se masturbent et de couples qui se lavent. Catégorie:Photographe allemand Catégorie:Plasticien contemporain allemand Catégorie:Artiste contemporain allemand Catégorie:Naissance en 1968 (fr)
  • Wolfgang Tillmans (ur. 15 sierpnia 1968 r. w Remscheid) — niemiecki fotograf. Do końca lat 80 żył i tworzył w Hamburgu. Następnie wyjechał do Wielkiej Brytani. W latach 1990-1992 studiował w Bournemouth and Poole College of Art. Od 1996 r. mieszka i pracuje w Londynie. W roku 2000 zdobył nagrodę Turnera. (pl)
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  • Wolfgang Tillmans (en)
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  • deutscher Fotograf (de)
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  • Wolfgang Tillmans (born August 15, 1968) is a German photographer, whose lives in Berlin and London. (en)
  • Wolfgang Tillmans (* 15. August 1968 in Remscheid) ist ein in London und Berlin lebender deutscher Fotograf und Kunstprofessor. (de)
  • Wolfgang Tillmans, né en 1968 à Remscheid en Allemagne, vivant et travaillant à Londres, est un photographe et un plasticien contemporain. (fr)
  • Wolfgang Tillmans (ur. 15 sierpnia 1968 r. w Remscheid) — niemiecki fotograf. Do końca lat 80 żył i tworzył w Hamburgu. Następnie wyjechał do Wielkiej Brytani. W latach 1990-1992 studiował w Bournemouth and Poole College of Art. Od 1996 r. mieszka i pracuje w Londynie. W roku 2000 zdobył nagrodę Turnera. (pl)
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  • Wolfgang Tillmans (en)
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  • Wolfgang Tillmans (fr)
  • Wolfgang Tillmans (pl)
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  • Wolfgang Tillmans (de)
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  • Tillmans (de)
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