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Controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe shocked the world with his images of bondage, gay-sex, female bodybuilders, and naked black men. Always technically brilliant, sometimes politically problematic, these photographs captured a New York community during times of intense social change. Mapplethorpe was an artist whose work became completely bound up with the times in which he lived.

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He captured moments in time that will be forever remembered; while street photography ruled, he retreated back to the studio, producing tightly composed, black and white portraits, still lives, and erotic art. At 16 years of age Mapplethorpe started to experiment with art and in he enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture.

He was influenced by artists such as Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp , and he experimented with various materials in mixed-media collages, including images cut from books and magazines. He acquired a Polaroid camera in and began producing his own photographs to incorporate into the collages. The image above shows how Mapplethorpe started as an artist.

There are clear surrealist influences here. He grew up as a catholic , but he was quite the social radical. It was a time of intense political activism in the USA: the civil rights movement, anti-Vietnam War protests, feminism, and gay rights including the Stonewall Riots. This was a time of culture wars and censorship.

Galleries were considering what they would and would not show in public spaces. The whole point of being an artist is to learn about yourself. The photographs, I think, are less important than the life that one is leading. Even after Smith married, their friendship continued. Together they produced legendary black and white portraits. In , they moved into the glamorous poverty of the iconic Chelsea Hotel in New York.

Patti Smith is a poet, an artist, and a rock star, and it was in her friendship with Mapplethorpe that her legend began. Robert took areas of dark human consent and made them into art. He worked without apology, investing the homosexual with grandeur, masculinity, and enviable nobility. Without affectation, he created a presence that was wholly male without sacrificing feminine grace. Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr. Mapplethorpe has become so well known as to overshadow other artists of the time, such as Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz, who both died of AIDS-related causes and explored similar subject matter in their art.

Although Mapplethorpe took his first photographs using an instant Polaroid camera, he soon acquired a Hasselblad medium-format camera and began taking photographs of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, including artists, composers, and socialites. These images are true portraits, in the art canon. It is said that Mapplethorpe worked slowly and was a perfectionist. In Self Portrait , , shown above, notice how Mapplethorpe is tightly controlling what you see.

Three-quarters of the face, tucked in the top right corner; one arm; part of the torso.