Mapplethorpe
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Troye Sivan channeled photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in tousled hair and designer jeans.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
They grew up on retro images of cool such as a waifish Joan Didion holding a cigarette or the young Patti Smith in a black T-shirt and black jeans smoking next to Robert Mapplethorpe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 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
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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