A work like the 2000 photograph I Don't Want to Get Over You perhaps best captures much
of his artistic output: Tillmans manipulated a brilliantly lit snapshot
of clouds over the sea, with the sun barely breaking through, and the resulting
picture is streaked with verdant green ribbons
of abstract color, adding a painterly
qualities to a technical image.
The marvellous Dance in Shadow (main
picture) possesses an old - fashioned
quality drawn from muted - bright colours and almost
abstract forms, suggestive
of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance styles.