Mapplethorpe

[mey-puhl-thawrp, -thohrp]

noun

1. Robert, 1946–89, U.S. photographer.

Example Sentences

She writes poetry and finds a soulmate in Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Scores of artists as well-known as Berenice Abbott, Anthony Friedkin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and Edmund Teske hang with more than a dozen unknowns.

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Elie’s cast of characters — an eclectic list that includes Andy Warhol, Sinéad O’Connor, Bob Dylan, Bono, Czeslaw Milosz, Martin Scorsese and Robert Mapplethorpe — were, to varying degrees, children of the church who had internalized its tenets at a time when religion was still a central fact of life in America and Europe in the ’50s and ’60s.

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Anchored by the poignant tale of her love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe, Smith’s story is an estimably mind-blowing response to the bottomless task of capturing why young and beautiful people do their relentless best in a little place called New York City.

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In April 1990, about a year after photographer Robert Mapplethorpe died of AIDS, “The Perfect Moment,” a retrospective show of 175 works, was scheduled to open at Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.

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