Freischwimmer is a German word which means “free swimmer”. This
piece of artwork by Wolfgang Tillmans questions what photography
really is because this is a photograph print that was created without
a camera. A photographic print is a printed picture produced through
manipulating light sensitive paper. Light sensitive paper is paper
that changes colour when light touches it. This particular piece was
created by moving fibre optic lights across light sensitive paper.
Moving the lights across it produced the black lines you can see on
this piece of artwork. The blur in this piece is produced through the
movement of the lights when placed on and removed from the paper.
Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Germany in 1968 and is an artist who
creates photographic based work. He made Freischwimmer 115 in 2010.
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