A documentary examining the life and work of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe debuted Monday night on HBO. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures takes its title from anti-gay Republican ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Jesse Helms understands completely how politically lucrative a good controversy can be. But his virulent response to Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography is not just a calculated gestures; something in ...

The newly discovered portfolio of Mapplethorpe photographs on a table during a private showing at Giorno Poetry Systems in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Photo by Lisa Freeman In a radical collision of ...

The photographer died 28 years ago and one suspects he’s got us exactly where he wanted. An arch-manipulator of the camera, he produced sculptural images of purest light and diabolical­ shadows. A ...