More recently still, he has started producing entirely abstract and often largely accidental compositions, created in the darkroom through the direct manipulation of light on paper. The abstract qualities of his work have also become ever more prominent since he started to unleash processes of abstraction by passing photographic images repeatedly through the photocopier, scanning them in high resolution and then enlarging the results to produce large C-prints. Especially over the last few years, the relationship between his work and a specific spatial situation has become a key preoccupation. For him, they are inseparable means of expression. Photography and installation go hand in hand in Tillmans’ work. Emphasizing both their pictorial and material qualities, he reprints his images, changes their scale and colour range and even brings them into a three-dimensional realm. ![]() Recently, he has started experimenting in an unorthodox way with his own material. Each of his exhibitions uses new combinations of these images. Tillmans’ aim is, as it were, to construct a visual catalogue in which every image can stand alone but also be part of a continuous whole. In his installations he employs a free mix of images from widely divergent visual categories. His distinctive style of image-making encompasses a broad range of subjects and now shifts between his immediate surroundings, nature, politics, religion, global issues like the AIDS crisis and even the purely abstract qualities of the image. In the last decade it has become clear that Tillman's perception of the world has been steadily widening. His early pictures of friends, clubbers, activists and artists are regarded as challenging, raw, romantic and erotic. The dividing lines between ‘queer’ and ‘straight’ or between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture seem to him entirely irrelevant. Since 1998, a multi-disciplinary team (under the auspice of the British Museum, UNESCO World Heritage and the AIST/LBFNM) has been conducting research on the ancient harbours of Lebanon and their palaeoenvironmental history.Wolfgang Tillmans is known to the general public as a photographer whose work reflects a contemporary way of life which revolves around music and youth culture, but also encompasses a sense of social and political commitment. Phoenicians were very active in international trade as they were using and extending Bronze networks, which allowed them to expand in the Mediterranean Sea. This discovery will help to increase the knowledge of Phoenician maritime archaeology and could help us to understand how Phoenician trade was organized. New geoarchaeological research has revealed that the ancient harbours lie beneath the modern urban centres. After the burial of the ancient basins, after the first millennium AD, the two harbours remained exceptionally preserved due to the preservation properties of the sedimentary context and the presence of the water table. Characterized by natural coves during the Bronze Age, the cities had artificial harbor infrastructure after the first millennium BC. ![]() Tyre and Sidon were the two most important cities of Phoenicia.
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