A look at at the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, a world renowned and controversial photographer, who died of AIDS in 1989. It explores his photography, his relationship to the downtown New York art world, and the gay S&M club scene prevalent in the eighties. His infamously explicit pictures of the gay, leather, New York Underground were considered groundbreaking and made him a cause celebre. Mapplethorpe’s portraits, flowers, erotic subject matter and artistic presentation, elevated the photograph to serious art, worthy of exhibition in galleries and museums.
Paul Tschinkel
Director
Pecker60%
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures69%
The Voyeurs65%
Nude93%
The Bang Bang Club65%
Louder Than Bombs64%
The Cameraman78%
The Squid and the Whale69%
The Midnight Meat Train61%
Maniac60%
The Apprentice68%
Crumb75%
The Neon Demon65%
Plainclothes72%
Everybody’s Everything84%
Cruising66%
Raging Bull79%
Closer68%
Girlfriends66%
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover73%
