Soon after becoming the first photographer to win the Turner prize in 2000, Tillmans started experimenting with picture-making that skipped camera, negative and subject, produced by exposing photographic paper to handheld light sources in the darkroom. Humans have made pictures for millennia – why get hung up on how they are made? So asks Wolfgang Tillmans. Photograph: Wolfgang Tillmans 21 Wolfgang Tillmans Little more than a filmed sketch, a situation grasped, Illuminer nevertheless has everything, and is a lesson in being able to make work anywhere, anytime. His camera, on top of the telly, watches him struggling in the gloom. Lit only by the flickering light of a television programme about US navy seals deployed in Aghanistan, McQueen thrashes on his hotel bed, illuminated by violence, the soundtrack erupting with noise. A prescient exploration of how human transactions are conducted online, and using EU law as an artistic medium. Later, the couple celebrated their divorce. Eventually she met and married a German in a performance in Belgrade. In 2000, she advertised online – using a brutal, shaven-headed and naked photograph of herself – for a husband with an EU Passport. Looking for a Husband with EU Passport (2000-05)īorn in the former Yugoslavia, Tanja Ostojić refuses to claim a nationality. A glimpse of the scale, if not the labour, of 21st-century global commerce. The extraordinary Amazon offers a glimpse of a single day’s orders stacked in a giant warehouse.

He is the photographic artist of our time, whether capturing the frenzied activity of the Chicago stock exchange or a painterly vista of the Rhine – a manipulated landscape that does not exist in real life.

The scale of his composite digital images is vast, their detail hyperreal. ASĪndreas Gursky makes photographs but not as we know them. Set in multiple locations and weathers (Bodmin Moor, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming and Illinois), and with innovative technical manipulations (the entire film was edited in-camera), atmospheres and startling imagery, the whole thing is a delight. Poet Anne Carson and actor Stephen Dillane move through the world on an imaginary day, as the sun is eclipsed. Almost an hour long, Tacita Dean’s film is a summation of her work to date.

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