FESPA Digital/Fruit Logistica, 2012

by WOLFGANG TILLMANS Courtesy of Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris   The German artist Wolfgang Tillmans surprised everyone back in the early ’90s with photographs that were so familiar but so different from art photography. He moved from magazine work to showing in art galleries and became the only non-Brit to win the Turner Prize. Using black-and-white, color, every kind of paper and size, Wolfgang recreated the life he led, the places he traveled to, and the things he saw as a photographic setup — each image was composed, even when it didn’t seem to be. He showed the social and sexual adventure that was evolving from the cheap air flights of the early ’90s and the free Internet — the love, lust, loss, discovery, hope, and confusion of the indie-rock generation. An example is the picture that graced the cover of Purple Prose in the winter of 1994 of his friend…