A landmark photobook capturing Wolfgang Tillmans’s outward turn toward the world through a singular and expansive photographic vision.
Neue Welt is a photobook by German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Over the past two decades, Tillmans has explored the photographic medium with a breadth unmatched by many of his contemporaries, ranging from snapshots of friends to abstract images made in the darkroom without a camera, as well as works produced with photocopiers. This publication, his fourth photobook with TASCHEN, marks a distinct shift away from the self-reflexive investigations into the medium that had occupied him for several years, and instead turns the lens outward toward the world itself.
Photographed across a wide range of locations—including London, Nottingham, Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, Saudi Arabia and Papua New Guinea—the book brings together images shaped by Tillmans’s search for subjects that speak to the condition of the present. As he put it, he was simply testing “what the camera can do for me, and what I can do for the camera.” The result is a powerful and unmistakable vision of contemporary life across different places, seen from multiple perspectives and angles. Tillmans also remarked that his travels had no fixed destination or clearly defined outcome; rather than seeking predetermined results, he hoped to encounter subjects that might say something about the era in which he lives.
The book also includes a conversation between Tillmans and Beatrix Ruf, director of the Kunsthalle Zürich. A landmark in photographic history that helped shape the direction of contemporary photography in the years that followed, Neue Welt remains one of Tillmans’s most important works.
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Title: Neue Welt
Artist: Wolfgang Tillmans
Publisher: TASCHEN, 2012
Format: Softcover
Size: 210 × 275 mm
Pages: 272
Language: English / French / German
Edition: First edition
ISBN: 978-3-8365-3974-6
Condition: Good. General wear consistent with age, including marks, stains, tanning and minor creasing.
