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ID: 500090430 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500090430			Record Type: Person

Mapplethorpe, Robert (American photographer, sculptor, and collagist, 1946-1989)

Note: Mapplethorpe studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he met singer/poet Patti Smith in 1968, whom he later photographed for her album covers. His initial interest in photography took the form of collages from photographs he found, but in 1972 he began to take pictures with a Polaroid camera. His images are classical and formal in appearance, his favorites subjects being male nudes, flowers, and still lifes. His homoerotic images became the subject of a much publicized obscenity charge in 1990 involving the Cincinnati Art Museum. Mapplethorpe also did a series of self-portraits toward the end of his life, documenting his deteriorating health from AIDS.

Names:
	Mapplethorpe, Robert (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Mapplethorpe, Robert (Dutch-P,NA)
	Robert Mapplethorpe (V,display)
	Mapplethorpe, Bob (V)
	Maplethorpe, Robert (V)
	מפלתורפ, רוברט (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	LGBTQ

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	photographer
	sculptor
	collagist
	multimedia artist
	painter

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

associate of ....	Leatherdale, Marcus Leatherdale was office manager and model for Mapplethorpe in 1980s
......................	(American photographer, 1952-2022, born in Canada) [500102077]

collaborated with ....	Smith, Patti
................................	(American singer, artist, and poet, born 1946) [500350488]

patron was ....	Wagstaff, Samuel J.
..................	(American curator and collector, 1921-1987) [500125450]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Mapplethorpe, Robert (I)

Biographies:

(American photographer, sculptor, and collagist, 1946-1989) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American photographer, 1946-1989) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, 1946-1989) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American photographer, 1946-1989) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1946-1989) ..... [MoMA]
(American photographer, 1946-1989) ..... [IMJ]
(American photographer, 1946-1989) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

מפלתורפ, רוברט ........	[IMJ]
............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Maplethorpe, Robert ........	[VP]
........................................	Beckley, Architectural Education, the Profession and the University (1990)

Mapplethorpe, Bob ........	[VP]
....................................	DeRogatis, Patti Smith Recounts her Friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe (2010)

Mapplethorpe, Robert ........	[BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..........................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules 3745
..........................................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8
..........................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..........................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82131041
..........................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 52437
..........................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Robert Mapplethorpe ........	[GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP]
........................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
........................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)


Note:
English	..........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	..........	Grove Art Online (2008-)

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