Program No. 61: Robert Mapplethorpe
2006
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A look at at the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe a world renowned and controversial photographer who died of AIDS in 1989. It explores his photography his relationship to the downtown New York art world and the gay S&M club scene prevalent in the eighties. His infamously explicit pictures of the gay leather New York Underground were considered groundbreaking and made him a cause celebre. Mapplethorpe’s portraits flowers erotic subject matter and artistic presentation elevated the photograph to serious art worthy of exhibition in galleries and museums.
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