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Aug 1, 2024 · The late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe first gained international attention due to his now infamous exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1988–90), which was …
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Oct 2, 2015 · A photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe, which was at the center of an obscenity lawsuit that shook the art world in 1990, is hitting the auction block.
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Jan 29, 2019 · Mapplethorpe’s photographs are less scandalous now, but still striking. A new two-part retrospective has opened at the Guggenheim 30 years after the artist’s death. ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE did...
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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) …
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Nov 5, 1989 · The Mapplethorpe show carries a warning that it contains strong material, a reference to the sexual explicitness that has made Mapplethorpe’s photography so controversial. The White...
Robert Mapplethorpe - Wikipedia
Between 1980 and 1983, Mapplethorpe created over 150 photographs of bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, culminating in the 1983 photobook Lady, Lisa Lyon, published by Viking Press and with text by Bruce Chatwin. Robert took areas …
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Jan 24, 2019 · NEW YORK — Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs of naked African American men and ritualized scenes of sexual domination and bondage scandalized some Americans in the 1980s and ’90s, died 30 years …
Robert Mapplethorpe: From suburbia to subversive gay …
Thirty years ago the controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe had a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. It contained several of his trademark explicit shots...
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Feb 17, 2024 · The former British Vogue editor is curating a major exhibition of Mapplethorpe’s portraits. What drew him to this controversial photographer’s world?
Robert Mapplethorpe: A Provocative and Controversial Artist
Dec 2, 2015 · The photograph is perhaps the most controversial, as it shamelessly rejects the cultural restraint against the experience of anal pleasure, and graphically exposes the taboos …
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