Monday, 8 December 2014

Robert Mapplethorpe Video Notes

  • American photographer
  • Black and white photography
  • Born in 1946
  • Born in New York
  • Brought up Catholic
  • Mainly sold his portraits to the rich
  • He took many self portraits
  • His work has been described as 'pornography'
  • He died from AIDS in 1989
  • Lived with Patti Smith
  • Took photographs of flowers for money
  • His photography was of his life
  • Work was very controversial 
  • Went to Pratt Institution in Brooklyn
  • His portraits were sometimes used on album covers









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