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Robert Mapplethorpe took many photographs of Patti Smith. He photographed her for the cover of her 1973 volume of poetry, Witt, and her album Horses in 1975. Horses went on to achieve iconic status in popular music and defined Smith’s androgynous and uncompromising style. In Mapplethorpe’s photograph Patti Smith 1975, Smith’s pose is both ...
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his nudes, floral still lifes, or self-portraits—light, shadow, composition, and form were central to all his work.
Jul 25, 2019 · July 25, 2019. Thirty years after Robert Mapplethorpe’s death, the legend still obscures the photographs. His demise at 42 from AIDS, during the height of the American epidemic, gave a tabloid ...
Robert Mapplethorpe is among the most influential visual artists of the late twentieth century. This major retrospective exhibition reexamines the arc of his photographic work from its humble beginnings in the early 1970s to the culture wars of the 1990s. Featuring portraits, nudes, still lifes, and the controversial X Portfolio, the exhibition explores Mapplethorpe’s studio practice and the ...
Nov 5, 1989 · November 5, 1989. Robert Mapplethorpe in his studio on Bond Street in New York, December 22, 1979. Photograph by Fred W. McDarrah / Getty. When photography is about love, the picture usually crops ...
Mar 15, 2021 · Robert Mapplethorpe. A key figure in late 20th-century photography, Mapplethorpe created work with a distinctive tension between opposites: sacred and profane, mainstream and underground, light and dark. From his early Polaroid portraits, to his fashion photography and later controversial work, Mapplethorpe's photographs are well-ordered and ...
Robert Mapplethorpe: Animism, Faith, Violence, and Conquest, Curated by Jacolby Satterwhite Los Angeles, CA February 24 – May 4, 2024 Alison Jacques Gallery Robert Mapplethorpe: Subject Object Image London, England November 30, 2023 – January 20, 2024
