Spending 12 weeks making a major studio film is a drastic shift from Smith’s recent projects, which include the Robert Mapplethorpe biopic “Mapplethorpe,” out now, and Mary Harron’s re ...

Robert Mapplethorpe. Composition and lighting History ... of lavender that plays against the white flowers and moss green leaves – the absolute clarity of composition is indeed Mapplethorpe ...

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 ...

In the now 25 years since Robert Mapplethorpe’s death, there have been an almost tiring number of exhibitions regrouping his series on flowers, sex, celebrities, and so on into predictable ...

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.

Serena Altschul, now, with a tale of two brothers... When you hear the name Mapplethorpe, it's this man who comes to mind: Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer whose pictures of flowers stirred the ...