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Mapplethorpe

American  
[mey-puhl-thawrp, -thohrp] / ˈmeɪ pəlˌθɔrp, -ˌθoʊrp /

noun

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


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Fred, Mapplethorpe, her friend Sam Shepard — the actor and playwright — and her brother, Todd Smith, were all gone.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

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

It features historic moments from the civil rights movement to Aids activism, and includes works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Ai Weiwei and others.

From BBC • May 15, 2024

“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