Born in 1946 in Floral Park, Queens. Robert studied art painting,sculpture and drawing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. He started out using a Polaroid and than moving on to a medium format camera. Mapplethorpe photographed friends and acquaintances and did some commercial work. He enjoyed photographing flowers, beautiful nudes. Some of his work was homo erotic that caused controversy. He died of AIDS in 1989.
http://www.mapplethorpe.org/biography/
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