Robert mapplethorpe photography men

Robert Mapplethorpe. Phillip. 1979. Gelatin silver print. 14 × 14" (35.6 × 35.6 cm). The Family of Man Fund. 66.2016. © 2025 Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Photography

Too often, Robert Mapplethorpe’s work is reduced to its more lewd manifestations: most viewers having trouble getting past the famous image of a man leaning for

This has to be one of the best fashion stories I've come across in quite some time. Numéro homme comes up with this editorial referencing the self-portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe as seen through the lens of Jean-Baptiste Mondino. I've always loved how they do things chez Numéro especially their play...

Robert Mapplethorpe

This is a beautiful example of the way that Mapplethorpe would often photograph the human body, or parts of it, against a geometrical, abstract background. The white board is viewed at a 90-degree angle so that it appears only as surface, as a white rectangle. There is little sense of depth, so that the man’s hands and arm stand out in contrast. Mapplethorpe may have been inspired to do this and other close-ups of parts of the body by the photographs that Alfred Stieglitz took of Georgia…