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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox artist Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) 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 gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Mapplethorpe's 1989 exhibition, 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.

Early life and education

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Mapplethorpe's studio at 24 Bond Street in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, which he later used as a darkroom.
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Mapplethorpe's romantic partner and lifelong friend Patti Smith

Mapplethorpe was born in the Floral Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the son of Joan Dorothy (Maxey) and Harry Irving Mapplethorpe, an electrical engineer.<ref name="R1"/> He was of English, Irish, and German descent, and grew up as a Catholic at Our Lady of the Snows Parish. Mapplethorpe attended Martin Van Buren High School, where he graduated in 1963.<ref name="R2"/>

He had three brothers and two sisters. One of his brothers, Edward, later worked for him as an assistant and became a photographer as well.<ref name="R3"/> He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he majored in Graphic Arts.<ref name="R4"/> He dropped out in 1969 before finishing his degree.<ref name="R5"/>

Career

Mapplethorpe lived with his girlfriend, the artist and musician Patti Smith, from 1967 to 1972,<ref name="R6"/> and she supported him<ref name="R7"/> by working in bookstores.<ref name="auto"/> They created art together,<ref name="R8"/> and maintained a close friendship throughout Mapplethorpe's life.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="R9"/><ref name="R10"/> In the late 1960s or early 1970s, Mapplethorpe took his first photographs using a Polaroid camera. He designed and sold his own jewelry, which was worn by Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro.<ref name="R11"/><ref name="R12"/> During this period Mapplethorpe also produced drawings, collages, and found object sculptures.

In 1972, Mapplethorpe met art curator Sam Wagstaff, who became his mentor, lover,<ref name="R13"/> patron, and lifetime companion.<ref name="R53" /> In the mid-1970s, Wagstaff acquired a Hasselblad medium-format camera and Mapplethorpe began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, including artists, composers, and socialites. During this time, he became friends with New Orleans artist George Dureau, whose work had such a profound impact on Mapplethorpe that he restaged many of Dureau's early photographs.<ref name="R53" />

From 1977 until 1980, Mapplethorpe was the lover of writer and Drummer editor Jack Fritscher,<ref name="R15"/> who introduced him to the Mineshaft, a members-only BDSM gay leather bar and sex club in Manhattan.<ref name="R16"/> Mapplethorpe took many pictures of the Mineshaft, and was at one point its official photographer (... "After dinner I go to the Mineshaft."<ref name="R17"/><ref name="R18"/><ref name="R19"/>)

By the 1980s, Mapplethorpe's subject matter focused on statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and highly formal portraits of artists and celebrities. Mapplethorpe's first studio was at 24 Bond Street in Manhattan. In the 1980s, Wagstaff bought a top-floor loft at 35 West 23rd Street for Robert, where he resided, also using it as a photo-shoot studio.<ref name=Morrisroe/> He kept the Bond Street loft as his darkroom. The exceptional quality of Mapplethorpe's prints was achieved with the technical assistance of printer Tom Baril from 1979 to 1989, despite a tense working relationship.<ref name=Morrisroe/> In 1988, Mapplethorpe selected Patricia Morrisroe to write his biography, which was based on more than 300 interviews with celebrities, critics, lovers, and Mapplethorpe himself.<ref name=Morrisroe/>

Death

On March 9, 1989, Mapplethorpe died at age 42 due to complications from HIV/AIDS in a Boston hospital. His body was cremated. His ashes are interred at St. John's Cemetery, Queens in New York City, at his mother's gravesite, etched "Maxey".<ref name="R20"/>

Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Nearly a year before his death, the ailing Mapplethorpe helped found the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. His vision for the Foundation was that it would be "the appropriate vehicle to protect his work, to advance his creative vision, and to promote the causes he cared about".<ref name="mfoundation"/> Since his death, the Foundation has functioned as his official estate and helped promote his work throughout the world, and has raised and donated millions of dollars to fund medical research in the fight against AIDS and HIV infection.<ref name="mfoundation"/>

In 1991, the Foundation received the Large Nonprofit Organization of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.<ref name="R21"/> The Foundation donated $1 million towards the 1993 establishment of the Robert Mapplethorpe Residence, a six-story townhouse for long-term residential AIDS treatment on East 17th Street in New York City, in partnership with the Beth Israel Medical Center.<ref name="R22"/> The residence closed in 2015, citing financial difficulties.<ref name="R23"/>

The Foundation also promotes fine art photography at the institutional level.<ref name="mfoundation"/> The Foundation helps determine which galleries represent Mapplethorpe's art.<ref name="Duray2013"/><ref name="R24"/> In 2011, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation donated the Robert Mapplethorpe Archive, spanning from 1970 to 1989, to the Getty Research Institute.<ref name="R25"/>

Art

Mapplethorpe worked primarily in a studio, and almost exclusively produced black-and-white photography, with the exception of some of his later work and his final exhibit "New Colors". His body of work features a wide range of subjects and the greater part of his work is on erotic imagery. He would refer to some of his own work as pornographic,<ref name=Morrisroe/> with the aim of arousing the viewer, but which could also be regarded as high art.<ref name=Whitney/>

His erotic art explored a wide range of sexual subjects, depicting the BDSM subculture of New York in the 1970s, portrayals of black male nudes, and classical nudes of female bodybuilders.<ref name="Whitney"/> One of the black models he worked with regularly was Derrick Cross, whose pose for the self-titled image in 1983 has been compared to the Farnese Hercules.<ref name="R26"/> Mapplethorpe was a participant observer for much of his erotic photography, participating in the sexual acts which he was photographing and engaging his models sexually.<ref name=Whitney/>

Other subjects included flowers, especially orchids and calla lilies, children, statues, and celebrities and other artists, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Debbie Harry, Susan Sontag, Kathy Acker, Richard Gere, Peter Gabriel, Grace Jones, Amanda Lear, Laurie Anderson, Iggy Pop, Philip Glass, David Hockney, Cindy Sherman, Joan Armatrading, and Patti Smith. Smith was a longtime lover/live-in girlfriend of Mapplethorpe and a frequent subject in his photography, including a stark, iconic photograph that appears on the cover of Smith's first album, Horses.<ref name=bestcovers/>

His work often made reference to religious or classical imagery, such as a 1975 portrait of Patti Smith<ref name="R27"/> from 1986 which recalls Albrecht Dürer's 1500 self-portrait. 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.

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Controversy

The Perfect Moment (1989 solo exhibit tour)

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In the summer of 1989, a traveling solo exhibit by Mapplethorpe brought national attention to the issues of public funding for the arts, as well as questions of censorship and the obscene. The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., agreed to be one of the host museums for the tour. Mapplethorpe decided to show his latest series that he explored shortly before his death. Titled Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, the show included photographs from his X Portfolio, which featured images of urophagia, gay BDSM and a self-portrait with a bullwhip inserted in his anus.<ref name="R28" /> It also featured photos of two children with exposed genitals.<ref name="R29" /><ref name="R30" />

The show was curated by Janet Kardon of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.<ref name="ICA" /><ref name="R31" /> The ICA was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Mapplethorpe's exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Corcoran cancelled the show, terminating its contract with the ICA, because it did not want to get involved in the political issues that it raised, but instead the gallery was pulled into the controversy, which "intensified the debate waged both in the media and in Congress surrounding the NEA's funding of projects perceived by some individuals ... to be inappropriate."<ref name="R32" />

The hierarchy of the Corcoran and several members of the United States Congress were upset when the works were revealed to them, due to the homoerotic and sadomasochistic themes of some of the work. Though much of his work throughout his career had been regularly displayed in publicly funded exhibitions, conservative and religious organizations such as the American Family Association seized on this exhibition to vocally oppose government support for what they called "nothing more than the sensational presentation of potentially obscene material."<ref name="R33" />

In June 1989, pop artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt became involved in the censorship issue. Nesbitt, a long-time friend of Mapplethorpe, revealed that he had a $1.5-million bequest to the museum in his will, but publicly promised that if the museum refused to host the exhibition, he would revoke the bequest. The Corcoran refused and Nesbitt bequeathed the money to the Phillips Collection instead. After the Corcoran refused the Mapplethorpe exhibition, the underwriters of the exhibition went to the nonprofit Washington Project for the Arts,<ref name="R34" /> which showed all the images in its space from July 21 to August 13, 1989, to large crowds.<ref name="R35" /><ref name="R36" />

In 1990, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, which had also shown the exhibit, and Dennis Barrie, then-director of the center, were charged with obscenity; photographs that depicted men in sadomasochistic poses were the basis of charges that the museum and its director had pandered obscenity. They were found not guilty by a jury.<ref name="R37" />

According to the ICA, "The Corcoran's decision sparked a controversial national debate: Should tax dollars support the arts? Who decides what is 'obscene' or 'offensive' in public exhibitions? And if art can be considered a form of free speech, is it a violation of the First Amendment to revoke federal funding on grounds of obscenity? To this day, these questions remain very much at issue."<ref name=ICA /><ref name="R38" /> Mapplethorpe became something of a cause célèbre for both sides of the American culture war. Prices for many of the Mapplethorpe photographs doubled and even tripled as a consequence of the attention. The artist's notoriety supposedly also helped the posthumous sale at Christie's auction house of Mapplethorpe's collection of furniture, pottery, silver and works by other artists, which brought about $8 million.<ref name="R39" />

University of Central England incident

In 1998, the University of Central England was involved in a controversy when a library book by Mapplethorpe was confiscated. A final-year undergraduate student was writing a paper on the work of Mapplethorpe and intended to illustrate the paper with a few photographs made from Mapplethorpe, a book of the photographer's work. She took the film to a local shop to be developed and the staff there informed West Midlands Police because of the unusual nature of the images.<ref name="R40"/><ref name="independent1998"/><ref name="autogenerated1999"/>

The police confiscated the library book from the student and informed the university that two photographs in the book would have to be removed. If the university agreed to the removal (which it did not) the book would be returned. The two photographs, which were deemed possibly prosecutable as obscenity, were "Helmut and Brooks, NYC, 1978", which shows anal fisting, and "Jim and Tom, Sausalito, 1977", which is of a man clad in a dog collar, a leather mask and trousers, urinating into another man's mouth."<ref name="R40"/><ref name="independent1998"/><ref name="autogenerated1999"/>

After a delay of about six months, the affair came to an end when Peter Knight, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, was informed that no legal action would be taken.<ref name="independent1998"/><ref name="autogenerated1999"/> The book was returned to the university library without removal of the photographs.<ref name="Smartt2011"/>

The Black Book

The 1986 solo exhibition "Black Males" and the subsequent book The Black Book sparked controversy for their depiction of black men. The images, erotic depictions of black men, were widely criticized for being exploitative.<ref name="R41"/><ref name="R42"/><ref name="R43"/> The work was largely phallocentric and sculptural, focusing on segments of the subject's bodies. His purported intention with these photographs and the use of black men as models was the pursuit of the Platonic ideal.<ref name=Morrisroe/> Mapplethorpe's initial interest in the black male form was inspired by films like Mandingo (1975) and the interrogation scene in Cruising (1980), in which an unknown black character enters the interrogation room and slaps the protagonist across the face.<ref name="R44"/>

Criticism was the subject of a work by American conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, Notes on the Margins of the Black Book (1991–1993). Ligon juxtaposes Mapplethorpe's 91 images of black men in the 1988 publication Black Book with critical texts and personal reactions about the work to complicate the racial undertones of the imagery.<ref name="R45"/>

American poet and activist Essex Hemphill also expressed criticism in his anthology Brother to Brother (1991). Although he believed that Mapplethorpe's work reflected exceptional talent, Hemphill also believed that it displayed a lack of concern for gay black men, "except as sexual subjects".<ref name="R46"/>

Posthumously

In 1992, author Paul Russell dedicated his novel Boys of Life to Mapplethorpe, as well as to Karl Keller and Pier Paolo Pasolini.<ref name="R47" />

When Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe was published by Random House in 1995,<ref name=Morrisroe /> the Washington Post Book World described it as "Mesmerizing ... Morrisroe has succeeded in re-creating the photographer's world of light and dark."<ref name="R48" /> Art critic Arthur C. Danto, writing in The Nation, praised it as "utterly admirable ... The clarity and honesty of Morrisroe's portrait are worthy of its subject."<ref name="R49" />

Patti Smith published books titled The Coral Sea (1996) and Just Kids (2010). Both were dedicated to Mapplethorpe, and the latter won the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction.<ref name=nba2010 />

In September 1999, Arena Editions published Pictures, a monograph that reintroduced Mapplethorpe's sex pictures. In 2000, Pictures was seized by two South Australian plain-clothes detectives from an Adelaide bookshop in the belief that the book breached indecency and obscenity laws.<ref name="R51" /> Police sent the book to the Canberra-based Office of Film and Literature Classification after the state Attorney-General's Department deftly decided not to get involved in the mounting publicity storm. Eventually, the OFLC board agreed unanimously that the book, imported from the United States, should remain freely available and unrestricted.<ref name="R52" />

In May 2007, American writer, director, and producer James Crump directed the documentary film Black White + Gray, which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. It explores the influence Mapplethorpe, curator Sam Wagstaff, and Patti Smith had on the 1970s art scene in New York City.<ref name="R53" /><ref name="R54" /><ref name="R55" /><ref name="R56" /><ref name="R57" />

In September 2007, Prestel published Mapplethorpe: Polaroids, a collection of 183 of approximately 1,500 existing Mapplethorpe polaroids.<ref name="R58" /> This book accompanies an exhibition by the Whitney Museum of American Art in May 2008.

In 2008, Robert Mapplethorpe was named by Equality Forum as one of its 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History Month.<ref name="R59" />

In June 2016, Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons debuted his men's Spring 2017 collection inspired by Mapplethorpe's work and featuring several of his photographs printed onto shirts, jackets, and smocks.<ref name="R61" /><ref name="R62" />

The American documentary film, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, was released in 2016. It was directed and executive produced by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, and produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein.<ref name="R63" /><ref name="R64" /><ref name="R65" /><ref name="R66" /><ref name="R67" /><ref name="R68" />

In January 2016, filmmaker Ondi Timoner announced that she was directing a feature about him, Mapplethorpe, with Matt Smith in the lead role.<ref name="biopic" /> The film premiered on April 22, 2018, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.<ref name="R69" />

In 2019 and 2020, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City hosted Implicit Tensions, an exhibition of many of Mapplethorpe's works.<ref name="R70" />

In collaboration with the Mapplethorpe Foundation, jeweler Gaia Repossi created a jewelry collection inspired by Mapplethorpe in 2021.<ref name="R71" />

In 2022, Isaac Cole Powell played a character in American Horror Story: NYC named 'Theo Graves' loosely inspired by Mapplethorpe's life as an erotic photographer, relationship with his mentor and art curator Sam Wagstaff, and death from HIV/AIDS complications.

Art market

In 2017, a 1987 Mapplethorpe self-portrait platinum print was auctioned for £450,000,<ref name="R72" /> making it the most expensive Mapplethorpe photograph ever sold.

In April 2023, Phillips auctioned Man in Polyester Suit (1980) for an above-estimate $355,600.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The Estate is represented by Xavier Hufkens.

Selected publications

Selected exhibitions

  • 1973: Polaroids, Light Gallery, New York.<ref name="gladstonegallery"/>

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  • 1977:
    • Flowers, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.<ref name="gladstonegallery"/>
    • Erotic Pictures, The Kitchen, New York.<ref name="gladstonegallery"/>
    • Portraits, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.<ref name="gladstonegallery"/>
  • 1978:
    • The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. Catalogue with text by Mario Amaya.<ref name="alisonjacquesgallery"/>Template:Better source needed
    • Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.<ref name="alisonjacquesgallery"/>
  • 1983
  • 1987:
    • Robert Mapplethorpe 1986, Raab Galerie, Berlin; Kicken-Pauseback Galerie, Cologne. Catalogue with interview by Anne Horton.<ref name="gladstonegallery"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, Obalne galerije, Piran, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Catalogue with text by Germano Celant.<ref name="gladstonegallery"/>
  • 1988:
  • 1992:
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (1992); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1992); Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy (1993); Residence of Ambassador Negroponte, Manila, Philippines (1993); Museo Pecci Prato, Prato, Italy (1993); Turun Taidemuseo, Turku, Finland (1993); Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (1993); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (1994); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1994); KunstHaus, Wien, Vienna (1994); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1995); Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (1995); City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand (1995); Hayward Gallery, London (1996); Gallery of Photography, Dublin (1996); Museo de Art Moderna, São Paulo(1997); Staatdgalerie, Stuttgart (1997). Catalogue with text by Germano Celant.<ref name="ropac"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, Tokyo Teien Museum, Tokyo. Curated by Toshio Shimizu. Traveled to ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan.<ref name="R73"/>
  • 1996:
    • Les Autoportraits de Mapplethorpe, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris.<ref name="R74"/>
  • 1997: Robert Mapplethorpe, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Shinjuku, Japan. Curated by Richard D. Marshall, Noriko Fuku, and Hiroaki Hayakawa. Traveled to Takashimaya "Grand Hall", Osaka; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukishima; Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa.<ref name="alisonjacquesgallery"/>
  • 1999: Robert Mapplethorpe, Centre Cultural La Beneficencia, Valencia, Spain.<ref name="alisonjacquesgallery"/>
  • 2002: Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan. Curated by Toshio Shimizu.<ref name="ropac"/>
  • 2003: Eye to Eye, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Curated by Cindy Sherman.
  • 2004: Pictures, Pictures, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles. Curated by Catherine Opie.<ref name="R75"/>
  • 2005:
    • Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2005); Moscow House of Photography, Moscow (2005); The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas (2006–2007).<ref name="R76"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, Alison Jacques Gallery, London. Curated by David Hockney.<ref name="alisonjacquesgallery"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo. Curated by Vik Muniz.<ref name="R77"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe: Tra Antico e Moderno. Un'antologia, Palazzina della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy. Curated by Germano Celant.<ref name="R78"/>
  • 2006: Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg. Curated by Robert Wilson.<ref name="R79"/>
  • 2008: Mapplethorpe: Polaroids, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.<ref name="R80"/> Traveled to: Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago (2009);<ref name="R81"/> Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2009).<ref name="R82"/>
  • 2009:
  • 2010: Robert Mapplethorpe, NRW-Forum Kultur Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf. Traveled to: C/O Berlin, Berlin (2011); Fotografiska, Stockholm (2011); Forma Foundation for Photography, Milan (2011); Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2012).<ref name="R86"/>
  • 2011:
  • 2012:
    • Artist Rooms Scottish Tour: Robert Mapplethorpe, Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon, UK. Traveled to: The Gallery at Linlithgow Burgh Halls, Linlithgow, UK, Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Perth, UK (2012), Old Gala House, Galashiels, UK (2013).<ref name="R90"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.<ref name="R91"/>
    • In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles.<ref name="R92"/>
  • 2014:
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, Grand Palais, Paris.<ref name="R93"/> Traveled to: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2015).<ref name="R94"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute Collection, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana.<ref name="R95"/>
  • 2015: Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford.<ref name="R96"/>
  • 2016:
  • 2017:
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.<ref name="R105"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, a perfectionist, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Holland.<ref name="R106"/>
    • Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs from the Peter Marino Collection, Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo. Traveled to: Kyotographie 2017, Kyoto.<ref name="R107"/>
    • Dangerous Art: Queer Show. Haifa Museum of Art. Curated by Svetlana Reingold.<ref name="R108"/>
  • 2018:
    • Robert Mapplethorpe, Gladstone Gallery, New York. Curated by Roe Ethridge.<ref name="gladstonegallery"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal.<ref name="R109"/>
    • Robert Mapplethorpe. Coreografia per una mostra / Choreography for an Exhibition, Madre museum, Naples, Italy. Curated by Laura Valente and Andrea Viliani.
  • 2019:
    • Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. January 25 – July 10, 2019 and July 24, 2019 – January 5, 2020<ref name="R110"/>

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Marshall, Richard, Richard Howard, and Ingrid Sischy. Robert Mapplethorpe. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with New York Graphic Society Books, 1988. Template:ISBN
  • Veith, Gene Edward. State of the arts: from Bezalel to Mapplethorpe. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1991. Template:ISBN
  • Ellenzweig, Allen. The homoerotic photograph: male images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Template:ISBN
  • Fritscher, Jack. Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera: A Pop Culture Memoir, An Outlaw Reminiscence. Mamaroneck, NY: Hastings House, 1994. Template:ISBN
  • Fritscher, Jack. "What Happened When: Censorship, Gay History & Mapplethorpe", in Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, ed. Derek Jones, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001, Template:ISBN. Retrieved 2014-09-02
  • Jarzombek, Mark. "The Mapplethorpe trial and the paradox of its formalist and liberal defense: sights of contention." AppendX 2:58–81, Spring 1994.
  • Morrisroe, Patricia. Robert Mapplethorpe: a biography. New York: Random House, 1995. Template:ISBN
  • Danto, Arthur C. Playing with the edge: the photographic achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Template:ISBN
  • Banham, Gary. "Mapplethorpe, Duchamp and the ends of photography". Angelaki 7(1):119–128, 2002.
  • Smith, Patti. Just Kids. New York: Ecco, 2010. Template:ISBN
  • Curley, Mallory. A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia. Randy Press, 2010.
  • Gefter, Philip. Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe. NY: Liveright, 2014.Template:ISBN

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