Q&A with Wolfgang Tillmans and Gregory Crewdson

[@jameswfortune]

I was very much enjoying this talk until my radiator fell off the wall. Looking forward to resuming at my earliest convenience.

[@jarequemetabolski]

One of Mr. Tillmans superpowers is to answer even the most boring and generic questions in such an insightful, interesting and charming way.

[@niffelac8594]

"Is there a movie or a song that makes you cry?" Jesus Christ

[@jarequemetabolski]

@@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.

[@marcocelentani6680]

And that's the same for his pictures..

[@MrThoughtfox]

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.

[@douglasmccart8963]

@@MrThoughtfox absolutely spot on

[@gregspov]

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.

[@johnnydeutschemark3620]

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!

[@denzielgrant8418]

Such an unexpected opportunity and pleasure to hear Wolfgang talk… he is very informative motivating personality.

[@johandofgod]

Safe is a phenomenal film.

[@Gravitys-NOT-a-force]

In an interview it's always good to ask interesting questions of the interviewee, especially the FIRST question.

[@user-ur2wd8du4z]

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..

[@mattbray_studio]

he is not good at all. completely disinterested which makes the interview boring

[@user-ur2wd8du4z]

@@mattbray_studio I know.. I would be so intrusive with them!! like a fan wanting to know everything!! lol

[@authoritease]

And one of these two discussants is a really good artist/photographer

[@наркоманчик-н3з]

Thanks for this conversation.

[@rigavitch]

YES

[@zakariyeawnur2558]

but the generation that thinks print cannot be replaced by a screen can be replaced by a generation who doesn't hold such value.

[@pepitoperez7849]

i don't like the interviewer either but he interviews great photographers

[@suppliolistico9452]

800 future photographers from Yale????

[@user-ur2wd8du4z]

They probably not that good.. not the 800 at least...

[@mishadavydov8582]

@@user-ur2wd8du4z Yale admits 10 photography MFA students a year... These lectures are open to the entire university and oftentimes the public.

[@angelemarignac-serra1281]

[@noiseforthealgorithm4668]

Gregory Crewdson is the worst interviewer. He could be automated and the result would be the same.