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# March 30, 2011, 2:00 pm
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/berlin-based-photographer-stephen-tillmans-is-a/
- Published: 2011-03-30T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:56:13.000Z
- Description: Berlin-based photographer Stephen Tillmans is a man after our own heart. He recently created a series of photographs of that split second when a television is shut down and the image fades into the ether. The results are both precise and surreal, drawing attention to flicker of energy few of us have
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Berlin-based photographer Stephen Tillmans is a man after our own heart. He recently created a series of photographs of that split second when a television is shut down and the image fades into the ether. The results are both precise and surreal, drawing attention to flicker of energy few of us have stopped to contemplate.

Also, well, KILL SCREEN.

> The *Luminant Point arrays* show tube televisions in the moment they are off swithed The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography. The breakdown of the television picture Describe the break down of the reference. The product is self-referential photography.