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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc.
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc.
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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. | Biography
BIOGRAPHY
Self-Portrait, 1975
Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946,
the third of six children. He
remembered a very secure childhood
on Long Island, which he summed up
by saying, “I come from suburban
America. It was a very safe
environment, and it was a good place
to come from in that it was a good
place to leave.” He received a B.F.A.
from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where
he produced artwork in a variety of
media. He had not taken any of his
own photographs yet, but he was
making art that incorporated many
photographic images appropriated
from other sources, including pages
torn from magazines and books. This
early interest reflected the importance
of the photographic image in the
culture and art of our time, including
the work of such notable artists as
Andy Warhol, whom Mapplethorpe
greatly admired.
Mapplethorpe took his first
photographs soon thereafter, using a
Polaroid camera. He did not consider
himself a photographer, but wished to
use his own photographic images in his
paintings, rather than pictures from
magazines. “I never liked
photography,” he is quoted as saying,
“Not for the sake of photography. I like
the object. I like the photographs when
you hold them in your hand.”His first
Polaroids were self-portraits and the
first of a series of portraits of his close
friend, the singer-artist-poet Patti
Smith. These early photographic works
were generally shown in groups or
elaborately presented in shaped and
painted frames that were as significant
to the finished piece as the photograph
itself. The shift to photography as
Mapplethorpe’s sole means of
expression happened gradually during
the mid-seventies. He acquired a large
format press camera and began taking
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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. | Biography
photographs of a wide circle of friends
and acquaintances. These included
artists, composers, socialites,
pornographic film stars and members
of the S & M underground. Some of
these photographs were shocking for
their content but exquisite in their
technical mastery. Mapplethorpe told
ARTnews in late 1988, “I don’t like that
particular word ‘shocking.’ I’m looking
for the unexpected. I’m looking for
things I’ve never seen before…I was in
a position to take those pictures. I felt
an obligation to do them.”
During the early 1980s, Mapplethorpe’s
photographs began a shift toward a
phase of refinement of subject and an
emphasis on classical formal beauty.
During this period he concentrated on
statuesque male and female nudes,
delicate flower still lifes, and formal
portraits of artists and celebrities. He
continued to challenge the definition of
photography by introducing new
techniques and formats to his oeuvre:
color Polaroids, photogravure,
platinum prints on paper and linen,
Cibachomes and dye transfer color
prints, as well as his earlier black-and-
white gelatin silver prints.
Mapplethorpe produced a consistent
body of work that strove for balance
and perfection and established him in
the top rank of twentieth-century
artists. In 1987 he established the
Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to
promote photography, support
museums that exhibit photographic art,
and to fund medical research and
finance projects in the fight against
AIDS and HIV-related infection.
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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. | Selected Works
SELECTED WORKS
The categories to the left feature the
primary themes of Robert
Mapplethorpe's photography. Each
section offers a sampling of 10 images.
Self-Portrait, 1985
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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. | Selected Works- Flowers
Flowers, 1982
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