Wolfgang Tillmans: A Reader is a panoramic collection of interviews and writings from an artist for whom language has always been a significant means of creative expression. Arranged chronologically, the assembled texts reflect TillmansÆs thinking on photography, music, politics, nightlife, astronomy, spirituality, and activism. The sources are as varied as their content, with statements and conversations that originally appeared in exhibition catalogues rubbing up against social-media posts and song lyrics. Whether discussing his own work as a photographer or drawing out the thoughts of others, Tillmans is a generous interlocutor with a refreshing clarity of thought. This timely and visually rich publication tracks TillmansÆs contributions to art and cultural criticism in tandem with the social and political shifts of the past thirty years.

ôWolfgang Tillmans is not only a great artist, heÆs a joyous intellectual whose generosity, wit, and good-natured skepticism is political, authentic, and pl