Robert Mapplethorpe

By: Peter Zech

AWQ30I-02

January 16th, 2012

Biography

•Born- November 4, 1946 New York

•Died- March 9, 1989 Boston

•Nationality- American

•Field- Photography

•Training- Pratt Institute

Overview• Male Nudes • Born and grew up as a Roman Catholic of English and Irish heritage

in New York. Grew up with parents and five brothers and sisters. • Studied for a B.F.A. Mapplethorpe lived with his partner Patti Smith.

They created art together, and kept a good relationship.• First photographs using a Polaroid camera. In the mid-1970s,

acquired a Hasselblad medium-format camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friend. In the 1980s he refined his medium.

• First studio was in Manhattan. • Died because of complications arising from AIDS. • found the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc.

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TITLE:  Ajitto

ARTIST:  Robert Mapplethorpe

WORK DATE:  1981

CATEGORY:  Photographs

MATERIALS:  Gelatin silver print

EDITION/SET OF:  15 + 3 APs

SIZE:  h: 20 x w: 16 in / h: 50.8 x w: 40.6 cm

REGION:  American

STYLE:  Contemporary

DESCRIPTION:  MAP-542

TITLE:  Cock

ARTIST:  Robert Mapplethorpe

WORK DATE:  1984

CATEGORY:  Photographs

MATERIALS:  Gelatin silver print

EDITION/SET OF:  2/10 SIZE:  h: 50.8 x w: 40.6 cm / h: 20 x w: 16 in

REGION:  American

STYLE:  Contemporary