Robert Mapplethorpe

Born: 1946-11-04

Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images.


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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2016-06-16

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of...

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Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2007-05-01

Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam...

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Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-11-24

From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped...

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Program No. 61: Robert Mapplethorpe

as uncredited
Released: 2006-09-15

A look at at the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, a world renowned and controversial...

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Still Moving/Patti Smith

as Himself
Released: 1978-01-01

Short film by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. A portrait of Patti Smith.

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Chelsea Hotel

as Self
Released: 1970-07-13

A pilot for a documentary film capturing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1970s. The film...

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Kathy Acker

as Self
Released: 1984-01-01

Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.

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