Analysis of: Robert Mapplethorpe's Nudes

Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most famous and controversial figures in the contemporary art world. His photographs were often praised for their beauty, and were often condemned for their explicit sexuality. Mapplethorpe was, ultimately, to choose a homosexual lifestyle, though he has intense sexual relationships with rock stars like Patti Smith, the first subject of his first series of portraits (Biography, 2007). One aspect of Mapplethorpe's large body of work included his fascination with the use of ethnic males as central figures. This analysis will use three images of ethnic males photographer by Mapplethorpe to show how the style of his work related to the period in which it was created.

Mapplethorpe became enmeshed in the throes of what he himself called "black fever" in 1980, when he began to claim that white males no longer interested him sexually (Morrisroe, 1995, p. 233). Mapplethorpe's decision t

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