Robert Mapplethorpe Photographer

Gender: Male
Citizenship: United States
Born: Nov 4, 1946
Died: Mar 9, 1989

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his sometimes controversial large-scale, highly stylized black and white photography. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits and still-life images of flowers. His most controversial work is that of the underground bondage and sadomasochistic BDSM scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s of New York. The homoeroticism of this work fuelled a national debate over the public funding of controversial artwork.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it. hope

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. art

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. hope

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. art

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. dad

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. dad

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live. change

Happiness? No, it's not there for me. happiness

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. money

Beauty and the devil are the same thing. beauty