Robert Mapplethorpe
Videos
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-Portrait, 1980
Mapplethorpe's former romantic partner and lifelong friend Patti Smith
Mapplethorpe's studio at 24 Bond Street in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, which he later used as a darkroom.
Lisa Lyon
Videos
Lisa Robin Lyon was an American female bodybuilder and photo model who is regarded as one of female bodybuilding's pioneers.
Robert Mapplethorpe
…sexual acts which he was photographing and engaging his models sexually. Between 1980 and 1983, Mapplethorpe created over 150 photographs of bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, culminating in the 1983 photobook Lady, Lisa Lyon, published by Viking Press and with text by Bruce Chatwin. In 1983, Mapplethorpe and Pop artist Andy…
Lisa Lyon resize