Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is a 2016 documentary movie directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. It stars Robert Mapplethorpe, Fran Lebowitz and Debbie Harry. It runs 1h 45m and is rated NR. Streaming in the US on Max.

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.