His photographs both challenge us and present us with images of classical beauty.

Now HBO’s "Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures," directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, debuting Monday, April 4th, puts the artist’s life and career into perspective. The documentary premieres just in time for two major retrospectives of Mapplethorpe’s work at the Getty Museum and the LACMA. Description. Robert Mapplethorpe is best known for his powerful black-and-white portraits and self-portraits.

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures 2016 1h 48min | Documentary, Biography | January 2016 (USA) Storyline: An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Deborah Harry Brooke Shields Fenton Bailey (2016) The interplay between Robert Mapplethorpe's personal and professional lives. MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES is the first definitive, feature length portrait of the controversial American artist Robert Mapplethorpe since his death from AIDS in 1989. Kyle Stevens, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, Journal of American History, Volume 104, Issue 1, June 2017, Pages 307–309, ... Perhaps it is to the likes of the uberconservative senator Jesse Helms, whose 1989 Senate rant to “look at the pictures!” opens the film, and is appropriated in its title. The one thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs was his life.

Shadowy is a better word. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is the first definitive, feature length portrait of the controversial American artist Robert Mapplethorpe since his death from AIDS in 1989. The most revelatory facet of Look At The Pictures is what you hear: Bailey and Barbato accessed a trove of audio recordings in which Mapplethorpe discusses … The one thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs was his life.