James Franco will play the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a new feature film produced by former "Buffy" and "Dollhouse" star Eliza Dushku, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

New documentary on the photographer, Mapplethorpe ... Hated by traditionalists and loved by art critics, Robert Mapplethorpe was described as a guerilla rebel demonised by Conservative politics.

For several years, while working on his documentary about the iconoclastic American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, Fenton Bailey would puzzle over a quote from the artist, who died in 1989 at ...

It makes Robert Mapplethorpe dull. The iconoclastic photographer died of AIDS in 1989, leaving behind a raging controversy regarding an eight-city tour of his exhibit “Robert Mapplethorpe ...

According to the producers of the charismatic HBO documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, "The only thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs was his life." And yet ...

The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation had conveyed the photographs jointly to the Getty and LACMA in 2011 in an unusual deal that recognized both museums’ emphasis on photography. The foundation ...

For someone as in love with the human face as Robert Mapplethorpe ... began later.) The Mapplethorpe that emerges is not always pretty, either. Vain, self-absorbed, and untroubled by his habit of ...