Wolfgang Tillmans Quotes - Page 2

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• The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an acceleration of images in the world, and that was before Flickr and so on. So I felt a need to slow down how one consumes photographs. With the abstract pictures, I was engaged in trying to find new images, but in practice, it was a bit like throwing a wrench in the spokes. The omnipresence of photography is at a level that it has never been in the history of the world. I feel really curious to now reengage and see what the camera can do for me.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Photography, Trying, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and more of those pictures. It's almost like everybody deserves a book about themselves, and everybody deserves a whole issue of Vice magazine devoted to them.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Book, Realness, Deserve

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe coming closer together, and nightlife and techno and ecstasy culture seemed like a very powerful panEuropean movement.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Wall, Powerful, Fall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This act of piss, which can be considered sexual by some, a pleasurable experience, is at the same time total disrespect. I had once asked a friend to do this picture and he totally refused. So I carried the idea around with me for years. When I was invited to do a Honcho shoot, I approached Phillip, who was the barman at The London Apprentice, and fortunately he knew who I was. He had a copy of my first book, and that broke the ice. At the end of the shoot with him, I realized I could ask him to do this picture. I had waited four years to do it.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Book, Disrespect, Broke

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whatever pictures are put into the world, the balance needs to be readdressed, it needs to be observed. That's why I am also really questioning what a lot of photography has done since I began. I am not saying because of me, but I mean, photographing some friends partying and publishing the pictures meant something else in '92 than it does in 2011. And I find the younger generation is not questioning this at all today.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Photography, Party, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure. Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Book, Mean, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Boy George of course, was my idol as a teenager. I haven't photographed him, even though I know him now. He wants the pictures to be retouched, and I don't want that.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Teenager, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Photography, Fashion, Boring

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image of the time. Because maybe two percent of the people looked the way that we now associate with that time. I was also aware that what I was aiming for is an idealized, utopian version of how people could be together. I found photography to be a very powerful tool because as long as it looks real, it is perceived as real.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Photography, Powerful, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Exercise, Reality, Hands

  "Wolfgang Tillmans: the lightness of being". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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