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Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, November 4, 1946 – Boston, March 9, 1989) was an American photographer. Most of his photos are taken in the studio. Read the full biography

Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, November 4, 1946 – Boston, March 9, 1989) was an American photographer. Most of his photos are taken in the studio. His most common themes were portraits of celebrities (including Andy Warhol, Deborah Harry, Patti Smith, and Amanda Lear), sadomasochistic subjects (which closely and unfiltered the New York homosexual subculture of which Mapplethorpe himself was a part), and often male and homoerotic nude studies, with the notable exceptions of bodybuilder Lisa Lyon's female nude series.