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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 16, 2016

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

72%

Original Title

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Production Companies

Film Manufacturers, World of Wonder, HBO Documentary Films

Director

Fenton Bailey

Description

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most controversial photographer of the twentieth century. Openly gay, Mapplethorpe took images of male sex, nudity, and fetish to extremes that resulted in his work still being labelled by some as pornography masquerading as art. But less talked about are the more serene, yet striking portraits of flowers, sculptures, and perfectly framed human forms that are equally pioneering and powerful.