Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of sex and desire--currently on show at two LA retrospectives--remain thrilling and transgressive 27 years after his death. Senior Editor and Writer Two Man ...

The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation contributed the photographs “Von Hackendahl” (1985) and “Derrick Cross” (1985) to the Accademia after they were featured in a recent exhibition that ...

Viewing Mapplethorpe’s photographs through the ... subjects like the bodybuilder Lisa Lyon or the late dancer Derrick Cross—are chaste by today’s standards. What is striking still is their ...

From fetishists to flowers, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s meticulous works cast a classical approach on his subject matter. He created sharply-focused, carefully-posed images that were ...