In the 1980s, Robert Mapplethorpe became a prominent figure in a New York City sub-culture of artists and performers. A recently-released HBO documentary, called "Mapplethorpe: ...

NEW YORK — Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs of naked African American men and ritualized scenes of sexual domination and bondage scandalized some Americans in the 1980s and ’90s, died 30 ...

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim museum in New York and a forthcoming film explore Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer behind some of the 20th century’s most brazen and beautiful images.

A History of Photography” showcases Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and other big names, but the important exhibition is so much ...

Robert Mapplethorpe`s photographs of nudes are often as coolly sculptural as flowers, and his photographs of flowers are often simply erotic. His polished yet unreserved treatment of controversial ...

First Mapplethorpe-only exhibit for North America %27The Coral Sea%27 runs through November Mapplethorpe%27s confidence in her %27really changed my life.%27 CINCINNATI -- In Just Kids, Patti Smith ...

A renegade Catholic boy raised by conservative parents in Queens, New York, Robert Mapplethorpe transformed some of the most blasphemous subjects on earth — gay sex, Satanism, bondage — into ...

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits, still lifes, and erotic imagery. His work, often controversial for its candid and explicit content, ...

The late artist Robert Mapplethorpe photographed flowers and celebrities, but also naked men, S&M club scenes and male genitalia, in tight close-up. If the new biopic “Mapplethorpe” presents ...

Matt Smith as Robert Mapplethorpe in the biopic "Mapplethorpe" directed by Ondi Timoner. (Courtesy Samuel Goldwyn Films) There’s nothing like that sense of shock in Timoner’s film.

The major thing that “Mapplethorpe” has in its favor is that the film is afraid of neither the life nor the work of the notorious photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Documentary director Ondi ...

A scene in the new biopic “Mapplethorpe,” set to a cover of New Order’s “Blue Monday,” shows the title character opening a box of fresh calla lilies. He inspects two of them, tosses them ...