CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/10/2022

'Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear' is on view at MoMA

Published to accompany the four-decade survey opening this week at MoMA (en route to the Art Gallery of Ontario and SFMOMA through February 2024), To look without fear collects 400 color reproductions of Wolfgang Tillmans' game-changing photography, installation, print media and video works, alongside essays by an outstanding list of curators and writers. Oluremi C. Onabanjo, for example, calls Tillmans' portrait-making process encounters "laden with vulnerability on both sides." She quotes Tillmans: “My whole concept of photography confused people in the 1990s, because I did not accept the traditional borders between staged and un-staged. … I think that the moment when there is a camera present is already staging. A camera in the room is never neutral. And my role as a photographer is to be aware of that and to deal with it."