Exhibition catalogue designed by Tilllmans produced in conjunction with exhibition held at P.S. 1 February 26 - May 29, 2006. Introduction by Heiss and essay by Nickas. "'Freedom From the Known' is Wolfgang Tillmans' first exhibition for an American museum, and unlike any he has ever previously mounted. The exhibition focuses on the artist's purely abstract photographs, and explores the presence abstraction has had within his figurative and representational work. Twenty-four of the twenty-five large-scale works on view were produced specifically for this exhibition and have never before been shown. Alongside the abstract works, a group of figurative/representational photographs from the series Empire, based on pictures Tillmans made between 1991 and 2002, are on view. The original pictures used for Empire were either passed through a photocopy or fax machine, then scanned to the highest possible resolution, turned into large-scale C-prints and framed. Due to the large format, minor surface incidents are intentionally enhanced, along with the grain and grit." -- from publisher's website. Includes loose, folded, poster inserted into back of book.