Mapplethorpe
Americannoun
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Troye Sivan channeled photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in tousled hair and designer jeans.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
As Smith once again explains, in writing “Just Kids,” she was keeping a promise she made to Robert Mapplethorpe to tell their story.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025
He didn’t have the totemic, darkly glamorous style of Robert Mapplethorpe but one more intimate, more dependent on human connection and contingency, even as he remained meticulous in his pursuit of the perfect shot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Not just Fred, but her best friend, the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who was felled by Aids in 1989 at the age of 42.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
“So Mapplethorpe gave these dudes a kind of noir feel, right? Well, I want to do that with dude-like things. Cray-Cray's shed seems like the most badass dude-cave at the whole school.”
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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