This intimate self-portrait is part of Mapplethorpe’s X Portfolio, an independent work made up of staged images that represent S & M homosexual culture in late-1970s New York. Published jointly by ...

Self-Portrait, 1974, gelatin silver print from Polaroid negative (produced as multiple). Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert Mapplethorpe ... including some of Mapplethorpe’s best-known self portraits–from the Guggenheim ...

From fetishists to flowers, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe ... His 1983 bust-like portrait of Ken Moody captures his nearly symmetrical physique silvery skin rendered in Mapplethorpe’s ...

Robert Mapplethorpe. Identical self-portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe with trip cable in hand, 1974, gelatin silver print. (Copyright Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ...

Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) was an American photographer known for his large-scale, highly stylized black-and-white portraits, photographs of flowers and images of ...

A sour, undernourished biopic, “Mapplethorpe ... Robert eventually came under the protective wing of lover-curator-benefactor Sam Wagstaff (John Benjamin Hickey). The work, striking portraits ...

Artist Robert Mapplethorpe was as controversial ... And like his frenemy Andy Warhol, Mapplethorpe did fashion shoots and made portraits of patrons and socialites. At the LACMA exhibition, a ...

4339 Leimert Blvd., Leimert Park, Los Angeles, artandpractice.org. “Portraits and Autobiographies by Kim Abeles,” at Post. The Los Angeles artist known for using smog -- some of her works ...

And how beautiful Robert was." Mapplethorpe treated himself and the people and things from his polymorphous society as sentimental objects. His staid black-and-white silver prints-portraits, flowers, ...