Robert Mapplethorpe:
- Was a pre digital photographer who worked in black and white.
- He focused primarily on the gay community within society which he was a part of. (the sexuality of manhattans gay community)
- Americas most famous portraiture photographer/artist.
- Photographs show collaboration between squalor and glamour
- Focuses on controversial topics such as race, sex and nudity.
- His photographs were what he wanted to see his objective was never to shock despite this being the eventual outcome.
- His content was controversial however the quality of work he produced was exceptionally uncontroversial.
- "He has bridged the line between unacceptable and shocking."
- Mapplethorpe is known for capturing not just photographs but feelings and thoughts of moments in time.
- Robert sets the tone and takes the photographs to other levels
- His photographs were revealing of emotion, he could capture everything he was faced with, all emotions were bare.
- He came from quiet suburb outside New York City but then started art school and moved to Brooklyn to pursue his career as a photographer.
- Used still life to experiment with light because he believed taking photographs of people is too special to risk experimentation and preferred to use perfected technique.
- Robert was brought up in a catholic home.
- He shot album covers, portraits, still life, a listers
- He got some feeling from pornographic imagery and tried to create his own
- "Bath House" was a place for men who were gay to meet - Robert Mapplethorpe photographed many men from here
- He captured violence that was sexual "Legs from the ceiling"
- Robert was one of the main agents to help the community define itself because he captured it well as he was a part of the community and not just on the outside looking in.
- Nothing was set up/ploy/victimization it was all just what people in this time were doing - the way of life.
- "Obligation for me to do it - make pictures that people have never seen before."
- "Robert was photographing what he lived - his lifestyle"
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