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During this time Mapplethorpe was also photographing the male figure. His sitters were often athletic black men including models, dancers and bodybuilders, all with muscular and well-defined bodies. He chose black models because, as his biographer Patricia Morrisroe suggested, ‘he could extract a greater richness from the colour of their skin’.
Oct 22, 2021 · His photos don’t speak of representation and the silencing of queer voices, as some have argued. They instead represent Mapplethorpe's perverse and problematic fetishization of the black body. Look at how these men stand compared to their white counterparts; look at the photos of the men on their own and how dehumanizes and exotisizes them.
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Oct 3, 2016 · In his photographs of black men, Mapplethorpe does not hide his attraction to big black cocks. He also, though, shows an appreciation for the history of race and an attraction to black masculinity and subjectivity in many forms.
Apr 12, 2024 · Controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) shocked the world with his images of bondage, gay-sex, female bodybuilders, and naked black men. Always technically brilliant, sometimes politically problematic, these photographs captured a New York community during times of intense social change.
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.
- Patricia Morrisroe
- 1995
Nov 1, 2019 · Hemphill was famously critical of Mapplethorpe’s photos, especially their use of black bodies. In his essay, “Does Your Momma Know About Me?” Hemphill argued that excluding the faces of the black men in the photos was a demonstration of fetishism by white members of the gay community. Essex Hemphill.
Mar 8, 2019 · The 1978 self-portrait (link NSFW) is among Mapplethorpe’s most shocking and confrontational, and stands among a sprawling body of work that includes hardcore scenes of gay S&M alongside less explicit (if no less erotic) photographs of flowers, celebrities, and sculptural nudes.
