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.

In the September 1989 issue of Esquire, several months after Robert Mapplethorpe's death ... but for the “feature” pages of Vogue, portraits of women celebrated for one reason or another ...

NEW YORK — Robert ... Mapplethorpe Foundation, curators Lauren Hinkson and Susan Thompson have covered all the essentials. The exhibition includes early collages and Polaroid self-portraits ...

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 ...

Mapplethorpe’s classically inspired portraits are the focus of “Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits,” a new exhibition opening Jan. 29 at the San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St., San Jose.

the self-portrait in which Mapplethorpe poses with bullwhip up his bum. While Bailey and Barbato predictably celebrate Mapplethorpe’s artistic influence, the film is no mere hagiography ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...