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Twenty-seven years ago, controversy erupted over Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs. It changed my life.
24 wrz 2024 · Controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) shocked the world with his images of bondage, gay-sex, female bodybuilders, and naked black men. Always technically brilliant, sometimes politically problematic, these photographs captured a New York community during times of intense social change.
Between 1980 and 1983, Mapplethorpe created over 150 photographs of bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, culminating in the 1983 photobook Lady, Lisa Lyon, published by Viking Press and with text by Bruce Chatwin. Robert took areas of dark human consent and made them into art.
29 mar 2016 · The way he worked seemed to have been: picking up a man for sex, sleeping with him, and taking photos of him almost immediately.
2 paź 2015 · The show’s approximately 175 images captured the range of Mapplethorpe’s subjects over his 25-year career, grouping them into three “portfolios:” nude portraits of African-American men (the...
20 lis 2018 · Even bat wood species have transitioned from hickory and the traditional ash to maple, which dominates today in major-league baseball (MLB). As baseball and its people have changed, the use of wood to make bats has not.
Mapplethorpe’s photographs of children have sometimes proved controversial because of the question of whether they wanted to be photographed and also because of the subject of some of Mapplethorpe’s other work. Why might depicting a child or working with a child make us ask ethical questions?
