Robert Michael Mapplethorpe 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. His most controversial works documented and examined the homosexual male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A 1989 exhibition of Mapplethorpe's work, titled Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, sparked a debate in the United States concerning both use of public funds for "obscene" artwork and the Constitutional limits of free speech in the United States.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Active - 1971 - 2016 |
Birth - Nov 4, 1946 |
Death - Mar 18, 1989 |
Genres - Documentary, Drama, Biography, History, Romance
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Subgenres - Biographical Film, Historical Film, LGBT-Related Film
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