that is what my work is about interview by SVEN SCHUMANN portrait by CARMEN BRUNNER All images copyright Wolfgang Tillmans and courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Wolfgang Tillmans, a longtime Purple contributor, came on the scene in the early ’90s as one of the most representative photographers of an emerging generation. He fiercely opposed the oversize, commercial aesthetic of the late ’80s and photographed friends, lovers, rebels, and artists in a realistic and poetic way, intimately and in the most delicate fashion. He helped to revolutionize photography in the age of computers, simply and with integrity, refusing any kind of effect or artifice. This immediately gave him the status of an artist, transcending the definition of what a photographer could be in a time of change. His photographs first appeared in Purple’s third issue, in the fall of 1993, and on the cover…