Mapplethorpe, 1 of 3
Photos of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith. Photos by Robert Mapplethorpe and others.
Photo by Gerard Malanga:
Photo by Norman Seeff:
Photos by Robert Mapplethorpe:
“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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe
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Parts 2 & 3 of this post series are here:
http://sexualityinart.wordpress.com/2007/01/13/mapplethorpe-2-of-3/
http://sexualityinart.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/mapplethorpe-3-of-3/
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.
Amazing image!
And images!
And “Horses;” how many hundreds and hundreds of hours I spent listening to this.
bruce, thank you for your lovely comment
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
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!