The ground zero at MOMA is “art photography,” its former autonomy diluted in a tsunami of images from Tillmans, in wildly varying sizes, mediums, and formats, which are often mounted from floor to ceiling, and may less risk than exalt banality. Criteria that once applied no longer compel. Geniuses alter the basic terms of the fields of art or science which happen to engage them. There’s a downside to the concession-it dampens my quarrels of taste with certain items, among the show’s predominantly brilliant several hundred, that I do not like. “To look without fear,” the immense, flabbergastingly installed retrospective of the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, at the Museum of Modern Art, persuades me that the man is a genius.
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