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Robert Mapplethorpe—famous for photographs that explore the issues of gender, race and sexuality—is the subject of a new documentary, premiering on HBO tonight, and of two new photography ...
Exclusive Video: Behind the Scenes of HBO’s Robert Mapplethorpe Documentary. 5 minute read. By Tara Johnson. April 1, 2016 3:55 PM EDT. Video Courtesy HBO.
A new Robert Mapplethorpe documentary will debut on HBO in April 2016, and will include interviews with Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Mary Boone, and others.
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe saw firsthand what happens when we’re no longer allowed to tell our stories. That’s why upcoming HBO documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is ...
Flowers were a recurring subject in Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography. But so were hard-core gay sex and the male member. When the artist’s show “The Perfect Moment” went on tour in 1989 ...
Ahead of its April 4 premiere, artnet News takes a look at the highs and lows of HBO's upcoming Robert Mapplethorpe documentary. Mary Boone weighs in. Price Database. 15 June 2025.
Brace Yourself: Robert Mapplethorpe Is More Uncensored than Ever In Exclusive Clip and HBO Documentary. ... The HBO documentary “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” premieres tonight at 9pm.
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, still controversial 27 years after his death, is the subject of the HBO documentary "Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.” (Marcus Leatherdale/Robert ...
The new HBO documentary about Robert Mapplethorpe has renewed interest in the provocative art photographer who became a sensation before his early death and a flashpoint for controversy after it ...
A renegade Catholic boy raised by conservative parents in Queens, New York, Robert Mapplethorpe transformed some of the most blasphemous subjects on earth — gay sex, Satanism, bondage —… ...
The major thing that “Mapplethorpe” has in its favor is that the film is afraid of neither the life nor the work of the notorious photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Documentary director Ondi ...