birth_date: 1946-11-04 00:00:00
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name: Robert Mapplethorpe
about: Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and naked men. The frank, homosexually erotic nature of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks.
death_date: 1989-03-09 00:00:00