Mapplethorpe, 1 of 3

Photos of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.   Photos by Robert Mapplethorpe and others.

Photo by Gerard Malanga:

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(Click on images to view them individually)

Photo by Norman Seeff:

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Photos by Robert Mapplethorpe:

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“She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah”
   –
by Leonard Cohen from his song “Hallelujah” (1984)

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Robert Mapplethorpe on Wikipedia

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Parts 2 & 3 of this post series are here:

Mapplethorpe 2 of 3

Mapplethorpe 3 of 3

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6 comments so far

  1. onemoreoption on

    I really try to avoid putting comments with images because I don’t want to narrow the many diverse things the raw images can be to different people. But I am adding this comment here, for only those who are interested enough in this post to investigate its comments. I love in the first photograph how it appears to me that he is lost in her. If you didn’t notice this at first glance: it appears they’re out on a fire escape (not the safest place in the world), yet his feet are literally not touching the ground.

  2. bruce on

    Amazing image!

    And images!

    And “Horses;” how many hundreds and hundreds of hours I spent listening to this.

  3. onemoreoption on

    bruce, thank you for your lovely comment

  4. NEV on

    i loved your pics of pattie smith, im 60s guy, but cought up with her, wonderfull poetry, and horses was just amazzzin!
    your photographyis buitifull, the black and wight, is just that,i just like the relaxed but stuning affect, you got with pattie pic, horses,
    absolutly,casual, and impactictive, her self is too, (im glad she continues, too herself, her art)
    thanks anyway,ok, n

  5. John Painz on

    I’ve always thought he was a brilliant photographer. I remember working in a library when I was a teenager and coming across a book of his work and, you know, at first I was like “oh man, look at those!” and then I really started enjoying the work as art. After, you know, a month or two ;)

    But these are really incredible. All of them. Thanks for posting them!

  6. Nayra on

    THanx for this website, hope you keep on uploading pictures about it. I find it very interesting. I am studying about Culture Management and in one subject I have to watch the documentary Dirty Pictures of Mapplethorpe. So, I found you and this web with its pictures. I´m glad to find out he was Patti´s Friend

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    OneMoreOption: Thank you, and I appreciate the feedback.


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