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Wolfgang Tillmans at David Zwirner Gallery

Digital technology allows us to picture everything in amazing detail, so how do you choose your subject matter as a professional photographer? Wolfgang Tillmans answers this question by continuing to zero in on the exceptional and mundane, picturing his day-to-day world (portraits of friends, laundry piles) and international travels in prints both tiny and monumental in a characteristic salon-style hanging which seems to evoke the randomness of life. (At David Zwirner Gallery through Oct 24th).

Wolfgang Tillmans, installation view of ‘New York Installation PCR’ at David Zwirner Gallery, September, 2015.

Wolfgang Tillmans at Andrea Rosen Gallery

For a recent four year project titled ‘Neue Welt,’ Berlin and London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans traveled off the beaten track in what he called an ‘aimless’ journey to “…find subject matter that in some way or other speaks about the time I’m in.”  A sampling from the resulting book is at Chelsea’s Andrea Rosen Gallery, offering disorientingly diverse glimpses of people and places around the planet.  (through June 22nd).  

Wolfgang Tillmans, ‘young man, Jeddah, b,’ inkjet print on paper, clips, 2012.

Wolfgang Tillmans at MoMA

Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 199, chromogenic color print, 2012.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 199, chromogenic color print, 2012.

The Museum of Modern Art recently rehung its contemporary art galleries, making room for an entire room of work by photography trailblazer Wolfgang Tillmans.  It includes this recent experimental abstraction created by chemical processes in the darkroom and thirty iconic photos of European youth culture, displayed in a typically unconventional arrangement.

Suzanne & Lutz, white dress, army skirt, chromogenic color print, 1993.
Suzanne & Lutz, white dress, army skirt, chromogenic color print, 1993.