Roxana Marcoci is Senior Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Clément Chéroux, Chief Curator of Photography, MoMA, and former Senior Curator of Photography, SFMOMA

Sophie Hackett, Curator of Photography, AGO

Keller Easterling, Professor and Director of the Master of Environmental Design Program, Yale University.

Quentin Bajac, Director, Jeu de Paume

Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study

Julia Bryan-Wilson, Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of California, Berkeley

Durga Chew-Bose, Essayist and Critic, Author of Too Much and Not the Mood, editor at SSENSE

Stuart Comer, Chief Curator of Media & Performance, MoMA

Oluremi Onabanjo, Independent Curator and Scholar

Paul Flynn, Writer, Author of Good as You

Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA

Phil Taylor, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, MoMA.

Andrew Vielkind, former Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow

Lead essays - 5000 words each:
1. Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, Department of Photography, MoMA. Marcoci's essay will address the multitude of creative platforms and formats across which Tillmans's images have proliferated, considering dissemination and distribution as a medium.
2. Clement Cheroux, Senior Curator of Photography, SFMOMA. Cheroux will provide close analysis of the dialectics of photography and sculpture in Tilmans's work.
3. Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University; or Kitty Scott, Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario; or Florian Ebner, Chief Curator of Photography, Centre Pompidou. This essay will consider Tillmans's trenchant investigation of spatial politics and the global built environment.
4. David Joselit, Graduate Center, CUNY, will consider the links between the artist's use of unframed prints and unpretentious media.

Chronology - 4000 words:
This series of short essays by Phil Taylor will incorporate new insights into the artist's biography, and will theorize the relationship between Tillmans's work and the social, political and historical context in which it was produced.

Shorter Thematic studies - 3000 words each:
1. Photography as Model, by Yve-Alain Bois
2. Portraiture, by Hilton Als
3. Still Life, by Maggie Nelson
4. Darkroom Experimentation, by Quentin Bajac
5. Video and Sound Art, by Stuart Comer
6. From a Painter's Eyes, by Jutta Koether
7. Print Media, by Paul Flynn
8. The Politics of the Body, by Paul B. Preciado or Richard Meyer
9. Re-Mix: Music and Electronic Media, by Seth Price
10. Art and Technology, by Michelle Kuo
11. Spirituality, by Phil Taylor
12. Exhibition as Activism, by Matthew Higgs

"A visionary creator and intrepid polymath, Wolfgang Tillmans unites formal inventiveness with an ethical orientation that attends to the most pressing issues of life today. While his work transcends the bounds of any single artistic discipline, he is best known for his wide-ranging photographic output. From trenchant documents of social movements to windowsill still lifes, sensitive portraits to architectural studies, ecstatic images of nightlife to cameraless abstractions, astronomical observations to intimate nudes, he has explored seemingly every genre of photography imaginable, continually experimenting with ways to make new pictures and deepen the viewer's experience. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Tillmans's work at the Museum of Modern Art, this copiously illustrated volume surveys four decades of the artist's career. An outstanding group of writers offer diverse essays addressing key aspects of his multifaceted practice, and a new text by Tillmans himself elucidates the distinctive methodology behind his system of presenting photographs."--