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.

The show — which includes more than 100 images drawn from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and ... willing to talk about being photographed by him.” As a result, “Portraits” includes ...

Then, from the over 2,000 Mapplethorpe images ... that I was able to discover [Robert’s] photos for myself, in my own way, in my own time. I look at him and all these creative people he was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...