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One reference is specified: a web page advertising/selling one book about Tillmans. The web page says nothing; does whoever added this mean that the book is the reference? If so, this is a start, but let's see page numbers. -- Hoary ( talk) 05:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
See this edit and its edit summary. Extraordinary. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:48, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Tillmans has recently had "LGBT" categories added.
I don't know anything about him, personally. The article says various things that hint that he may be gay or bisexual. Well, is he? If he is and it's important that he is, then the article should say this, with a good source, and the categories should stay. If there are no good sources for this, there should be no such claim in the article and the categories should go. -- Hoary ( talk) 13:13, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
The second problem is that by categorising BLPs and BDPs like a dog marking its territory, WPians who mean well are in fact reinforcing the marginalisation of non-straight identity, for want of a better term. Do we have a category for heterosexuals? Exactly the same quandary is involved in the not-uncommon wording " openly gay", which I've seen in a number of BLPs lately. Sometimes the word "openly" is piped to coming out as though humans are naturally heterosexual and need to escape it in such schematic ways as are described in that article. The word "openly" assumes a default of not being open—that somehow any departure from heterosexual thought or behaviour is abnormal and requires "openness". Should people should be "open" about their heterosexual thoughts and behaviour? It is a fundamentally prurient construction.
The third issue is that such potentially voyeuristic categorisations spurn the rights of living people to their own inner life, their own sexual identity, however they may wish to express it or not to. It's no argument to claim that this artist's output features representations of male bodies, that he is male, that a friend of his had AIDS, and that this justifies a singular categorisation of sexuality. Even though he lived with a male partner for decades, the Nobel laureate Patrick White would be incensed to know he has been slotted into "gay", as though an object of curiosity for others to pore over. I suppose he found it insufferable to be criticised for not understanding women—a slight no doubt underpinned by the crude categorisations of journalists and some academics—all the more since anyone who reads his novels would find his insights into women more telling than those of many non-homosexual writers.
Dennis Altman, in his major work Homosexual: oppression and liberation, prophesied the evolution of human sexuality towards "the polymorphous whole". By rude contrast, WP seems to be perpetrating an in-house notion of rigid distinctions in sexuality that owes more to the 1960s and 70s than the 21st century. By all means, deal with how the topic of homosexuality, bisexuality, and the full rainbow of human sexuality have been stratified in external sources, but this internal categorisation cannot help but be POV. It is unhelpful to both readers and editors. Tony (talk) 14:31, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I will be working on this page for a class project from CSUEB. I would like to talk a little about how the Hasselblad Foundation described his work when he received the 2015 Hasselblad Award. Also, I would like to add more on his style of work. Please give feedback, any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
Here are some of the references I am using for these additions.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/feb/13/wolfgang-tillmans-photographer-interview-tate-modern http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/wp/wolfgang-tillmans-3/?lang=en http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/wp/portfolio_page/wolfgang-tillmans/ Mei001 ( talk) 23:14, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
Are there viewpoints that are over-represented, or underrepresented?
A viewpoint that is underrepresented is Between Bridges because there is not a lot information about the connections. I think there should be more on this topic because it's interesting yet it leaves the reader wanting to learn more. Blanca2019 ( talk) 22:03, 23 January 2018 (UTC)Blanca Sanchez
Hi my name is Jaspreet and I am doing an assignment for my California State University East Bay, and for I am suppose to edit this article about Wolfgang Tillmans. I will be discussing on the artwork by Tillmans and how it relates to tbe AIDS and HIVs epidemic and is life throuhg professionally and personally. I just recently found out more information related to his artwork and realized that the artwork that mentioned from the site into the wikipedia web page is the one that relates to HIVS and aids. Also, he had to deal with AIDS and HIVS from the age of 16 when Jochen Klein became his boyfriend. I retrieved my information from "Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans Opens Up About Living HIV Positive". 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2017-11-10. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdhillon8 ( talk • contribs) 20:01, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
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Artist article page is nicely developed. The added photographs and representations of the artist's artwork adds a great visual touch for the readers to be able to see how some of Tillmans work looked like if this is the first article they are reading when doing research on this artist. The sections are nicely detailed, I think the only information I would know to add would be if I were assigned to this artist myself, then maybe. But as for someone just reviewing the page, I still think this article page is developed. Great job!
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