Robert Mapplethorpe

Fran Lebowitz

Debbie Harry

Brooke Shields

Carolina Herrera

Paul Martineau

Bob Colacello

Patti Smith

Randy Barbato

Fenton Bailey

David Benjamin Steinberg

Huy Truong

Mario Panagiotopoulos

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most controversial photographer of the twentieth century. Openly gay, Mapplethorpe took images of male sex, nudity, and fetish to extremes that resulted in his work still being labelled by some as pornography masquerading as art. But less talked about are the more serene, yet striking portraits of flowers, sculptures, and perfectly framed human forms that are equally pioneering and powerful.

Documentary

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portrait of an artist

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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Film Manufacturers

World of Wonder

HBO Documentary Films

Germany

United States of America

English

Learnings from making the documentary

Contemporary Artists

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Why a Documentary?

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