Geburtsdatum | Montag, 04. November 1946 |
Geburtsort | Queens, New York City, U.S. |
Todesort | Boston |
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Beschreibung | Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (/ˈmeɪpəlˌθɔːrp/; 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. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A 1989 exhibition of Mapplethorpe's work, titled Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, sparked a debate in the United States concerning both use of public funds for "obscene" artwork and the Constitutional limits of free speech in the United States. |
If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
