Culling images from newspapers, magazines, pornography, and television, he recontextualized them through collage and assemblage, double - sided photograms,
darkroom experimentation, and rephotography.
While
darkroom experimentation is largely a thing of the past, the longing to connect with a physical aspect of picture - making remains.
On the cover — Wolfgang Tillmans: Martin Herbert meets up with the Turner - Prize winning German artist, who has gone from London street and club photography to that of broader cultural eyewitness in New York and Berlin, globetrotting still life and natural photography, abstract photography and, more recently, colour and
darkroom experimentations that addresses the history of the medium.
Alison Rossiter Rossiter explains
her darkroom experimentations with expired photographic papers, and the black and white abstractions that result.
Not exact matches
For more than a century, photographers have dealt with the spaces of their studios in strikingly diverse and inventive ways: from using composed theatrical tableaux (in photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron or Cindy Sherman) to putting their subjects against neutral backdrops (Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe); from the construction of architectural sets within the studio (Francis Bruguière, Thomas Demand) to chemical procedures conducted within the
darkroom (Walead Beshty, Christian Marclay); and from precise recordings of motion (Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton) to playful, amateurish
experimentation (Roman Signer, Peter Fischli and David Weiss).
Throughout the 20th century, artists have explored their studio spaces using photography, from the use of composed theatrical tableaux (in photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron or Cindy Sherman) to neutral, blank backdrops (Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe); from the construction of architectural sets within the studio space (Francis Bruguière, Thomas Demand) to chemical procedures conducted within the
darkroom (Walead Beshty, Christian Marclay); and from precise recordings of time and motion (Eadweard Muybridge, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton) to amateurish or playful
experimentation (Roman Signer, Peter Fischli / David Weiss).