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Mapplethorpe, Robert

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Mapplethorpe, Robert (1946–1989)

US art photographer. He was known for his use of racial and homo-erotic imagery in chiefly fine platinum prints. He developed a style of polished elegance in his gallery art works, whose often culturally forbidden subject matter caused controversy.



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Throughout the years, he collected works by Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Adams, Ezra Stoller, Robert Frank, Irving Penn, Walker Evans, Erwin Blumenfeld and Edward Weston.
 
 
 
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