And in a case of perfect timing, given the book’s success, the San Jose Museum of Art will open “Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits” on Saturday for a four-month run. The show — which includes ...

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

In one portrait, Moody’s eyes are closed ... And she’s right, a delicacy seen throughout the work of Robert Mapplethorpe. Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now Through July 10 at the Guggenheim ...

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 nude men. The frank, homosexual ...

Just over a quarter-century ago, an American Catholic-raised schoolboy, visual artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), sent shock ... Suit"), to beautiful floral arrangements, to a self-portrait of the ...

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989 ... suspended and the man becomes sculpture.” Indeed. A Mapplethorpe portrait, from the pubis up, of Michael St. Clair (1986 ...

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 photographer is suing the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and several ... in drag that have long been identified as self-portraits. The lawsuit comes as the controversial late photographer ...

While he enjoyed commercial success via celebrity portraits and photographs of ... its zenith during the 1988-89 traveling show, “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment.” ...

Artist Robert Mapplethorpe was as controversial ... The exhibition ends with a ghost-like self-portrait Mapplethorpe made as he was dying. After his death, Mapplethorpe's foundation searched ...

In fact what occurred in these sittings, as in all portrait sittings ... you say too much you lose some of that mystery,” Robert Mapplethorpe once told a BBC interviewer who wanted to talk ...

The work, striking portraits of gay man in the nude ... resulting in two separate galleries showing the two distinct sides of Robert Mapplethorpe. The personal drama is unvarnished and at times ...