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 …

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in Queens, New York. One of six children, he was brought up in a strict Catholic environment. When he was sixteen he enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, …

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Inspired by the mixed-media approaches of Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, Mapplethorpe combined Polaroids with cut text to create collages in the 1970s. He would also utilize different …

Mapplethorpe: Directed by Ondi Timoner. With Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, Brandon Sklenar. A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the …

Oct 31, 2025 · Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer who was noted for austere photographs of flowers, celebrities, and male nudes.

Apr 8, 2022 · Mapplethorpe is most known as a classic black and white photographer, but he also dabbled with sculpting, collages, and film, and was also commissioned to photograph celebrities for …

A portion of the archive gifted solely to the Getty Research Institute provides comprehensive coverage of Mapplethorpe's artistic and commercial career and holds several hundred photographs of non …

Essays by Roxana Marcoci, Geoffrey Batchen, and Tobia Bezzola, 2010 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 256 pages.

Throughout the 1980s, Mapplethorpe produced images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flowers and …