Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (/ ˈ m eɪ p əl ˌ θ ɔːr p / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes , self-portraits, and still-life images.
There she met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, with whom she began an intense romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with poverty and Mapplethorpe's sexuality. Smith used Mapplethorpe's photographs of her as covers for her albums, and she wrote essays for several of his books, including his posthumous Flowers, at his ...
Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. [1] "I didn't write it to be cathartic ," she noted. "I wrote it because Robert asked me to…. Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved.
Facilities. roof deck, clothes check, dungeons / private rooms, slings, glory holes, bathtub. The Mineshaft was a members-only BDSM leather bar and sex club for gay men located at 835 Washington Street, at Little West 12th Street, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Meatpacking District, West Village, and Greenwich Village sections. [1]
Robert Mapplethorpe, born in 1946, fell in love with art and photography at a young age. He began experimenting with Polaroids, which led to his first exhibit and continued with photography after acquiring a camera. Mapplethorpe shot photographs that many at the time found “shocking.”
102 min. 114 min (Director's Cut) Country. United States. Language. English. Mapplethorpe is a 2018 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ondi Timoner about the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. [1] Shooting began on July 11, 2017 in New York and lasted only 19 days. [1] It premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
The Perfect Moment was the most comprehensive retrospective of works by New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The show spanned twenty-five years of his career, featuring celebrity portraits, self-portraits, interracial figure studies, floral still lifes, homoerotic images, and collages. The exhibition, organized by Janet Kardon of the ...
According to her "Just Kids" autobiography, and her straightforward description of Mapplethorpe's sexual activities and the way he himself regarded them, he was a bisexual who preferred men. In Smith's view, bisexuals almost always prefer one sex, although they may have romantic relationships with both.