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MATT SMH FENDS ROLE AS GAY PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
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Chartg his personal volvement New York’s gay scene, Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs monstrated a pellg perspective on the unrground queer culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Patti Smh's boyiend, the gay New York artist who died of AIDS, the man who took a picture of fistg and lled art: However you know of cult photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, 's strange that we know so ltle about the man himself. Famed for shootg male nus, the sndal of the homoeroticism his pictur has overshadowed both the artist and work photos are strikg, even today still reasonably shockg, and unflchg.
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His most ntroversial works documented and examed the gay male BDSM subculture of New York Cy the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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