Encompassing photography installation print media video and more this publication is the
most comprehensive account of Tillmans' wide-ranging career to date A visionary creator and
intrepid polymath Wolfgang Tillmans unites formal inventiveness with an ethical orientation
that attends to the most pressing issues of life today. While his work transcends the bounds of
any single artistic discipline he is best known for his wide-ranging photographic output. From
trenchant documents of social movements to windowsill still lifes ecstatic images of nightlife
to cameraless abstractions sensitive portraits to architectural studies astronomical
phenomena to intimate nudes he has explored seemingly every genre of photography imaginable
continually experimenting with how to make new pictures and deepen the viewer's experience.
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Tillmans' work at the Museum of Modern Art
this copiously illustrated volume surveys four decades of the artist's career. An outstanding
group of writers offer diverse essays addressing key threads of his multifaceted practice and
a new text by Tillmans himself elucidates the distinctive methodology behind his system of
presenting photographs. Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear grants readers new insight into
the work of an artist who has not only changed the way photography is exhibited but pointed
contemporary art in dynamic new directions. Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) is among the most
influential contemporary artists and the impact of his work registers across the arts
intersecting with fashion music architecture the performing arts and activism. Tillmans is
the recipient of the Turner Prize (2000) and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in
Photography (2015). His foundation Between Bridges supports the advancement of democracy
international understanding the arts and LGBTQ rights.
