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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.
- Patricia Morrisroe
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Jan 14, 2019 · 30 years after the Corocoran Gallery of Art infamously cancelled his show, a Guggenheim retrospective includes Mapplethorpe’s erotic images.
Apr 12, 2024 · Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr. was an American art curator and collector, as well as the artistic mentor and benefactor of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith. A supporter of Pop Art , Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, he was drawn to Mapplethorpe’s photography and championed it as fine art.
Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr. (November 4, 1921 – January 14, 1987) was an American art curator, collector, and the artistic mentor and benefactor of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (who was also his lifetime companion) and poet-punk rocker Patti Smith.
Mar 21, 2016 · Samuel J Wagstaff Jr – a New York aristocrat, curator and Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover – collected over 26,000 photographs in his lifetime, of everything from grisly medical images to eerie ...
Robert Mapplethorpe took many photographs of Patti Smith. He photographed her for the cover of her 1973 volume of poetry, Witt , and her album Horses in 1975. Horses went on to achieve iconic status in popular music and defined Smith’s androgynous and uncompromising style.
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Mar 15, 2021 · In 1972, Mapplethorpe met two influential curators. John McKendry gave him his first Polaroid camera, with which he made self-portraits and portraits of his friends and acquaintances in the art world. Samuel Wagstaff, Jr. later became the artist's lover and mentor.
