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Brown, 1988.
Stone Walls, Grey Skies: A Vision of Yorkshire. Afterward
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Barthes, Roland. ‘‘People.’’Zoom(Italy), no. 98 (March
1990): 35–50.
Caponigro, John Paul. ‘‘A Conversation with George
Tice.’’View Camera(July-August 1996): 38–45.
Cavin, Andrew I. ‘‘George Tice, Photographer.’’Current
Biography64, no. 11 (November 2003): 83–87.
Holland, Robin. ‘‘Masters of the Darkroom: An Interview
with George Tice.’’Darkroom Photography2, no. 4
(July–August 1980): 31–35.
Lobron, Barbara. ‘‘Review of Urban Romantic: The Photo-
graphs of George Tice by George Tice.’’Camera Arts
(June 1983): 6–12, 87, 90.
Schaub, Grace. ‘‘Interview: George Tice.’’Photographer’s
Forum11, no. 4 (September 1989): 24–31.
Scully, Ed. ‘‘George Tice: Craft and Vision.’’Modern
Photography37, no. 2 (February 1975): 108–17.WOLFGANG TILLMANS
German
Wolfgang Tillmans is a contemporary artist who
uses photography as a technical means to an aes-
thetic end. He has been hailed within the 1990s as
one of the most important artists/photographers
of his time; a ‘‘chronicler of a generation.’’ Yet
with much acclaim he is still often misunderstood
in his intent.
Born in 1968 in Remscheid, Germany, Tillmans
moved to Hamburg in 1987 where he first began
photographing local youth culture. His images
were well received when displayed in his first solo
exhibition, also in Hamburg. Around this time,
Tillmans was working as a commercial photogra-
pher, photographing for popular American and
European magazines such asI-D,Interview,Spex,
andThe Face. In 1990 he moved to Bournemouth,
England, to study photography in a two-year pro-
gram at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art
and Design, now called the Arts Institute of Bour-
nemouth. Afterwards, Tillmans lived and worked
in New York for a brief time, eventually returning
to the United Kingdom in 1996 where he continues
to live in London.
Tillmans’s early photographs may be among his
best known. At the least, they were the catalysts for
his discovery as a significant contemporary artist. He
began by photographing friends and other members
of his generation in various locations including night-
clubs and raves. Many of his friends would reappear
as subject matter for Tillmans within these early
years. The color photographs were reminiscent of
rather spontaneous snapshots but were actually
very well planed scenarios only giving the illusion of
impulsiveness. The subjects appear casually within
the space and are also very comfortable in front of
the camera, a testament to Tillmans’s skill as a phot-
grapher. Along with these portraits of his youth,
Tillmans also explored many genres, photographing
landscapes, cityscapes, and still lifes. His focus was
on the ordinary, the mundane, and often, the over-
looked: for example, the way a pair of jeans hangs
from a hook is in his estimation enough to inspire a
photograph. However, Tillmans’s work presented a
contradiction: the structure and discipline in the
making of the image was sharply contrasted with
the indifferent way the images are often presented.
They have been taped and pinned to museum and
gallery walls, presented in varying shapes and sizes.
Often pages torn from magazines or newspapers
intermingle with the color photographs. At times
the images have been hung in a seemingly hapha-
zard way, appearing more like a collage of images
on a teenager’s bedroom wall than an art installa-
tion. In 1995 a selection of these photographs was
released in Wolfgang Tillmans’s first monograph.
The book was conceived and created by Tillmans
for the German publishing company Taschen. The
book received much praise yet encouraged TillmansTILLMANS, WOLFGANG