Robert mapplethorpe photography

Robert Mapplethorpe. Phillip. 1979. Gelatin silver print. 14 × 14" (35.6 × 35.6 cm). The Family of Man Fund. 66.2016. © 2024 Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Photography

Attorney H. Louis Sirkin on the famous obscenity case involving Mapplethorpe’s photographs.

Long before iPhones, Snapchat filters, Kim Kardashian, and Cindy Sherman, painters like Rembrandt were painstakingly accepting their worst angles and inventing their best, all in pursuit of the art of the selfie. It's a torch that Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, and Marina Abramovic have all nobly helped carry throughout the centuries, rendering their own likenesses in everything from pencil to Polaroid film to oil paint. "Facing the World," up now at the Scottish National Portrait…

Orchid, 1985

This has to be one of the best fashion stories I've come across in quite some time. Numéro homme comes up with this editorial referencing the self-portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe as seen through the lens of Jean-Baptiste Mondino. I've always loved how they do things chez Numéro especially their play...

“If I had been born one hundred or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make a sculpture.” — Robert Mapplethorpe. Two amazing retrospectives that explored the breadth and depth of this master’s work.

The late photographer’s new exhibition puts the onus on the viewer

In connection with the talk at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, we will be showing Robert Mapplethorpe’s portrait of Patti Smith, which belongs to the Moderna Museet collection. Welcome to the collection, admission is free!