Q&A with Wolfgang Tillmans and Gregory Crewdson
2024 ж. 20 Мам.
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Wolfgang Tillmans on spirit of invention, his audience, and generosity in the community.
Part of Yale MFA Photo's Pop-up Q&A series via zoom, which started in response to online learning during the 2020 pandemic.
I was very much enjoying this talk until my radiator fell off the wall. Looking forward to resuming at my earliest convenience.
The mention of Neil Young's 1979 live album Rust Never Sleeps has even more connections to the topic of photography and art than discussed. I distinctly remember the thrill I felt, the first time I listened to the album, when after listening to the acoustic songs on the A side, I flipped the record over and heard the first chords from the electric guitar on Powderfinger. The B side was all electric. This is an experience one cannot have listening to the album on a Compact Disc or digital stream. And it is a good illustration of the relationship between art and the medium, a topic which Mr. Tillmans discusses eloquently in this interview.
One of Mr. Tillmans superpowers is to answer even the most boring and generic questions in such an insightful, interesting and charming way.
"Is there a movie or a song that makes you cry?" Jesus Christ
@@niffelac8594 horrible, totally agree with you. But to be fair to the interview he mentions in an other interview that the questions were compiled by/with his students and are very general by choice.
And that's the same for his pictures..
They’re quite unspecific by design, for better or for worse. I think the questions’ banality and openness are meant to stimulate the artist’s answer, in the way perhaps that negative space can...but also maybe to find continuity among all the sessions.
@@MrThoughtfox absolutely spot on
The installation & presentation is always really memorable with W .T. and strange... something about that would be my first question. Cool to hear he likes Neil Young "Like a Hurricane", human nature, but a surprise none-the-less. Feel lucky to have seen his work really early on, on the cover of Purple Fashion, it hit us hard! This interview, also : Thanks Wolfgang!
Such an unexpected opportunity and pleasure to hear Wolfgang talk… he is very informative motivating personality.
Safe is a phenomenal film.
YES
15:25 Yes! But I think this also touches on Robert Adams’ notion and defense of _beauty_ in photography. There shouldn’t even be a reason to want to photograph a sunset in a more “clever” way (which today means being in the prison of irony). The genuinely genuine artist recognizes and embraces the sunset for what it is in terms of both a literal and metaphorical aesthetic.
In an interview it's always good to ask interesting questions of the interviewee, especially the FIRST question.
Thanks for this conversation.
Crewdson is not so good at listening or maybe he is not a good interviewer, but he missed a lot of opportunities to go for a deeper meaninful conversation..
he is not good at all. completely disinterested which makes the interview boring
@@remodernist I know.. I would be so intrusive with them!! like a fan wanting to know everything!! lol
And one of these two discussants is a really good artist/photographer
but the generation that thinks print cannot be replaced by a screen can be replaced by a generation who doesn't hold such value.
And which would be a sorry ass generation.
i don't like the interviewer either but he interviews great photographers
800 future photographers from Yale????
They probably not that good.. not the 800 at least...
@@user-ur2wd8du4z Yale admits 10 photography MFA students a year... These lectures are open to the entire university and oftentimes the public.
Gregory Crewdson is the worst interviewer. He could be automated and the result would be the same.