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Robert Mapplethorpe (born in Queens / NY, 1946, died in Boston, 1989) studied at Pratt Institute. In the beginning of the 1980s he began to make portraits of Andy Warhol, Paloma Picasso, Patti Smith, Louise Bourgeois and other personalities.
photography, controversial issues
http://www.mapplethorpe.org
http://www.cheimread.com/artists/robert-mapplethorpe/gallery/selected-works