Wolfgang Tillmans
born 1968
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Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations.
Tillmans was the first photographer – and also the first non-British person – to be awarded the Tate annual Turner Prize. He has also been awarded the Hasselblad Award, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition's Charles Wollaston Award, The Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography, and is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. Tillmans lives in Berlin and London.
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Studying truth with Wolfgang Tillmans
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Wolfgang Tillmans: 'What art does in me is beyond words'
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Since the mid 1980s, Wolfgang Tillmans has reinterpreted representational genres from portraiture to still life to landscape through the medium ...
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BP Artist Talk: Wolfgang Tillmans
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Audio Arts: Volume 20 No 4 & Volume 21 No 1 Side B – Christian Boltanski, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marta Marcé, Sune Nordgren
Christian Boltanski, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marta Marcé, Sune Nordgren
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