A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer behind some of the 20th century’s most brazen and beautiful images.

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 ...

If he looked at “The Americans,” Robert Frank’s 1959 masterpiece of street photographs, Mapplethorpe was unlikely to see himself pictured in the book. A not-so-subtle — and often very ...

In the cool white vaults of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, curators tend to the archive of the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe ... subject’s gifts, frank about his flaws.