An Australian exclusive exhibition of images by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) will be on display at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale between 23 August and 19 September. Robert ...

What distinguishes Mapplethorpe’s approach is his classical ... society’s shadows—not to sanitize human desire but to frame it in ways that force contemplation of what we celebrate, what ...

Faraz drew inspiration from Caravaggio, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Beatrix Potter. “Caravaggio’s The Resurrection of Christ is a masterpiece. Robert Mapplethorpe’s work explores sexuality in a ...

The cool, fetishized stance that makes Mapplethorpe’s images feel slightly ... Even when he isn’t in the frame, there is a sense that all the people featured in the photographs are friends ...

Famed for winning the very first Women’s World Professional Bodybuilding Championship, Lisa Lyon, who died last year, attracted the attention of many artists during the 1980s, and posed for Andy ...

It’s no surprise that the photographer’s major inspiration is Robert Mapplethorpe, whose portfolio was full of ... With Yun entering the frame once more, the photograph shows his ability to not only ...

An anonymous, third hand enters the frame, tendons quickening ... from Warhol’s pantheon of alternative saints to Mapplethorpe’s ritualized objectification of the male form.

“Mapplethorpe had the audacity to share his ... A scooped front leather apron dress put a frame around its model’s pectoral muscles, but more provocative were the “butt-cleavage” leather ...

Inside the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition that sparked a First Amendment showdown in Cincinnati. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast ...

which drooped like one of the famous Mapplethorpe calla lillies left out of water overnight. There it lay, in subdued color not unlike a frame from Antonioni’s Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert ...