Robert Mapplethorpe

Biography:

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.

Known For

Dirty Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

No. 18: Mahagonny

Robert Having His Nipple Pierced

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

Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande

Kathy Acker

Still Moving/Patti Smith

Chelsea Hotel

Program No. 61: Robert Mapplethorpe

Acting

2021

Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande as Self (archive footage)

2016

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures as Self (archive footage)

2007

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe as Self (archive footage)

2006

Program No. 61: Robert Mapplethorpe

2000

Dirty Pictures as Self

1984

Kathy Acker as Self

1980

No. 18: Mahagonny as Self

1978

Still Moving/Patti Smith as Himself

1971

Robert Having His Nipple Pierced as Himself (uncredited)

1970

Chelsea Hotel as Self

Directing

1978

Still Moving/Patti Smith as Director

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Robert Mapplethorpe

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