Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most controversial photographers in the history of the medium, died of complications arising from AIDS Thursday at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...