Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Produced by Film Manufacturers, World of Wonder
A documentary examination of Robert Mapplethorpe's transgressive photographic practice, balancing explicit sexual imagery with aesthetic mastery and the artist's struggle for legitimacy.
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.
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