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Robert Mapplethorpe – Gay Icon

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Robert Mapplethorpe – Gay Icon

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Robert Mapplethorpe by George Dureau
Jack Fritscher and Robert Mapplethorpe
Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera
Jack Fritscher and Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographer

Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera

Dueling Photographers: George Dureau and Robert Mapplethorpe

Profiles in Gay Courage
“Robert Mapplethorpe: Fetishes, Faces, and Flowers of Evil“

Censorship: A World Encyclopedia

Mapplethorpe, Schwarzenegger, and eBay

The Guardian: March 3, 2016 (Text)  (PDF)

“Pentimento for Robert Mapplethorpe” Drummer #133, 09-1989

“The Good and Evil in Mapplethorpe’s Flowers“ (Phaidon – pdf)

“Robert Mapplethorpe: What Happened When“

“Mapplethorpe, Wigler, and the Politically Correct“

“Mapplethorpe” (poem)

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (HBO)

Mapplethorpe (the movie)

Feature Articles on Robert Mapplethorpe Referencing Jack Fritscher

  • “Am-Mapplethorpe, What a Metaphor” (pdf)
  • “Robert Mapplethorpe-Look at the Pictures” (pdf)
  • “Mapplethorpe Beyond the Veil of the Sublime” (pdf)
  • “Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures”-Sundance (pdf)
  • “Robert Mapplethorpe made Patti Smith’s…” (pdf)
  • “The Good and Evil in Mapplethorpe’s Flowers” (pdf)
  • “MetalBondNYC.com” (pdf)
  • ‘Dominick and Elliot’, Mapplethorpe, 1979-Tate (pdf)
  • “Mapplethorpe’s Muse” (pdf)
  • “Short Fictions Inspired by Mapplethorpe” (pdf)
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Robert Mapplethorpe — Short Biography

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