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After Arbus

Wolfgang Tillmans, seeing and thinking

Tillmans has resisted the strict designation of “photographer,” which is understandable given the breadth of his practice and the general unpleasantness of being pinned into any one category, but he has nonetheless become one of the medium’s most important visionaries. The show suggests an artist entering into an impressive maturity, moving beyond his stylish beginnings to become a voice of not only his generation but of the medium as a whole, redefining the terms of production and exhibition to propose an approach defined by neither the romantic ideologies of seeing nor the conceptual ideologies of thinking, but by a graceful and often profound interweaving of the two. The camera, for Tillmans, is both a tool anda mode of being, which makes following along the paths he uses it to blaze a deeply rewarding experience.?

WOLFGANG TILLMANS | UCLA Hammer Museum | Through January 7, 2007

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