Photographer Edward Mapplethorpe, Robert's younger brother. And he snapped pictures of Altschul's daughter ... life through the eyes of those who knew him best, including Edward, who grew up ...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Senior Editor and Writer Of course, all the throbbing penises, phallic flowers, and hot bodies Robert ... documentary, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.

At the same time, it simplified Mapplethorpe’s artistic output, singling him out as a cause to get behind. A familiar argument was that the beauty of the images, their classicism, outweighed ...

It was so easy to be around him, because he was so busy being Robert Mapplethorpe.” And regarding 1984’s Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, among Mapplethorpe’s best-known images, we learn from ...

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.

Robert Mapplethorpe's photography walks the line between beautiful and obscene, and that's what makes him so famous. His images of seductive flowers are alarmingly erotic, and his nearly ...

“Robert loved glamour, and he loved elegance,” he adds. “These pictures [on show ... Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. I ask him whether he always knew Mapplethorpe would make it.

Mapplethorpe had no idea that Robert was taking such pictures. “The first we saw of his work, other than getting individual gifts from him, was when we saw it at the Whitney Museum,” he says.

I first met Robert Mapplethorpe in the elevator ... There is an HBO film, the documentary “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.” The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum ...

I was first introduced to Robert Mapplethorpe ... and I went on to model for him. I came from a very sheltered childhood, a Christian background. So I saw these pictures of black men I’d ...

In June of 1989, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., elected to cancel “The Perfect Moment,” a retrospective on American artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Mapplethorpe, who had died ...