Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black & white portraits, photos of flowers and male nudes. The frank, erotic nature of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks. Wikipedia
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 599-601. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. www.imdb.com/name/nm0544632/
Robert Mapplethorpe Birth: Nov. 4, 1946 Floral Park Nassau County New York, USA Death: Mar. 9, 1989 Boston Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA Renowned Photographer. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7477198
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Panamarenko, Art & Language, Guy Van Bossche, Pol Bury, Tadashi Kawamata, James Lee Byars, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Mapplethorpe ... are just a few of the artists presented. www.muliermuliergallery.com
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was born in New York. He earned a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he produced artwork in a variety of media, mainly collage. The shift to photography as Mapplethorpe's sole means of expression happened grad www.skny.com/artists/the-estate-of-robert-mapplethorpe/
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is best remembered for the controversy that surrounded some of his work. In the 1970s and '80s he was castigated for glorifying sexually explicit content and homoerotic themes. A new exhibition of his photographs at the minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/05/10/mappleth...
