Four BooksWolfgang Tillmans has pushed photography to its limits and explored the medium more than any other artist of his generation, including making abstract images in a darkroom without a camera. For this collection, Tillmans edited his previous four books with TASCHEN into a single work examining life at the turn of the millennium.

This reissue of At Twelve has been printed using new scans and separations from Mann’s prints

A total of 53 images

and other American social rituals

recording and cumulation

and insights on photography—offering the workshop experience in a book

and resistance are a direct response to contemporary and historical racisms

This multi-layered portrait of “the violet isle”—a little-known name for Cuba inspired by the rich color of the soil there—presents an engaging

with Robert Adams' Big Sugar Cookies

and groundbreaking photographs

sustained note in her more elaborate composition

A distinct element of the book lies in its use of test strips — photographic leftovers from the printing process

the first commercial photography gallery in Japan