| Dates: | 1946, 4 November - 1989, 9 March | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
American photographer who experimented with Polaroid images and in the 1970s he switched to large and medium format shots to take homo-erotic and sado-masochistic images. He also took series of still-lifes, studio shots of flowers and portraits of exquisite beauty.Preparing biographies | | |
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
• Koetzle, Hans-Michael 2002 Photo Icons: The Story Behind the Pictures - Volume 2 (Koln: Taschen) [This book discusses one photograph "Lisa Lyon (1982)" by Robert Mapplethorpe in considerable detail. An excellent source for a detailed analysis.]
• Sobieszek, Robert A. and Deborah Irmas 1994 the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits (Los Angeles: LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art) p.225, Plate 135 [When the Audrey and Sydney Irmas collection was donated to LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 the museum gained a remarkable collection of self portraits of notable photographers. If you need a portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe this is a useful starting point.]
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| "I want people to see my works first as art and second as photography." | | "I‘m looking for the unexpected. I‘m looking for things I‘ve never seen before." |
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