Robert Mapplethorpe
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Robert Mapplethorpe became one of the most well known American photographers of the 20th century. He began taking photographs in the 1970s using a Polaroid camera and showed his work for the first time at the Light Gallery, New York, in 1973. In 1976, he purchased a Hasselbald medium-format camera and, working primarily in the studio, began producing large-scale still lifes (of subjects such as lilies and skulls), interiors, nudes, portraits and self-portraits. His studio-based work is notable for its great formal precision. Mapplethorpe also photographed his circle of friends and celebrities, including Patti Smith, and he occasionally produced pictures for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. In the late 1970s, he documented the New York sadomasochistic scene and published the X Portfolio in 1978 (a group of thirteen silver gelatin prints depicting homoerotic and sadomasochistic subjects). In 1988, the inclusion of some of these explicit images in his major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art ignited a fierce public debate in America about censorship and the public funding of the arts. Several series of his photographs were collated into now-famous books, including Lady, Lisa Lyon with Bruce Chatwin (1983), Black Book with Ntozake Shange (1986), 50 New York Artists (1986), Some Women with Joan Didion (1989) and Flowers (1990).
Robert Mapplethorpe was born in Floral Park, Queens, USA, in 1946. He died in Boston in 1989. Xavier Hufkens works in partnership with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Sybill Walker, 1979
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Lily, 1979
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Phillip, 1979
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Lily, 1979
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Nude (Lynn Davis' Model), 1979
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Boot Fetish, 1979
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Victor Huston, 1979
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Charles Tennant, 1978
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Helmut's Ass, 1978
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Cookie Mueller, 1978
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Patti Smith, 1978
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Marcus Leatherdale, 1978
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Marcus Leatherdale, 1978
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Peter Berlin, 1977
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Nick, 1977
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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François, S.F., 1976
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
40,6 × 50,8 cm | 16 × 20 inches
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1976
(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
50,8 × 40,6 cm | 20 × 16 inches
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Untitled (Jamie), 1975
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14,6 × 10,5 cm | 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches
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Untitled (Randy), 1975
B&W polaroïd
14,6 × 10,5 cm | 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches
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Untitled (Randy), 1975
Color polaroïd
14,6 × 10,5 cm | 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches
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Untitled (Manfred), 1974
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14,6 × 10,5 cm | 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches
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Untitled, 1974
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13 × 10,5 cm | 5 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches
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Untitled, 1974
B&W polaroïd
13 × 10,2 cm | 5 1/8 × 4 inches
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Jamie, 1974
B&W polaroïd
10,8 × 8,6 cm | 4 1/4 × 3 3/8 inches
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(edition of 10 + 2 AP), Silver gelatin print
50,8 × 40,6 cm | 20 × 16 inches
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14,6 × 10,5 cm | 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches
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14,6 × 10,5 cm | 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches
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13 × 10,5 cm | 5 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches
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10,8 × 8,6 cm | 4 1/4 × 3 3/8 inches
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Exhibitions
2013
Robert Mapplethorpe
Au Début (works from 1970 to 1979)
2011
David Altmejd, Marcel Broodthaers, Andrew Dadson, Latifa Echakhch, Michel François, Nikolas Gambaroff, Vincent Geyskens, Jacob Kassay, Elad Lassry, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ron Nagle, David Noonan, Jack Pierson, Ryan Sullivan, Lesley Vance & Ned Vena
Everything You Can Imagine Is Real…
2009