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Robert Michael Mapplethorpe ( / ˈmeɪpəlˌθɔːrp / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images.
In a 2009 exhibition Mapplethorpe: Perfection in Form, at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy, his photographs were presented alongside great Renaissance masterpieces such as Michelangelo’s David 1504.
Nov 1, 2016 · Robert Michael Mapplethorpe ( MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images.
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene. View Robert Mapplethorpe’s 3,722 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
5 days ago · Robert Mapplethorpe (born Nov. 4, 1946, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 9, 1989, Boston, Mass.) was an American photographer who was noted for austere photographs of flowers, celebrities, and male nudes; among the latter were some that proved controversial because of their explicitly homoerotic and sadomasochistic themes.
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Mar 8, 2019 · Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment sparked a culture war over public arts funding and censorship that ultimately lionized Mapplethorpe as a totem of free expression and caused the value of his work to skyrocket.