Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 - March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, famous 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.

Bibliography

Patricia Morrisroe (1995) Robert Mapplethorpe: A Biography (Papermac: London and New York)

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Arthur C. Danto (1996) Playing with the Edge: the Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (University of California Press: London and Los Angeles)

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Gary Banham (2002) "Mapplethorpe, Duchamp and the Ends of Photography" Angelaki 7.1

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