num_pages: 480
description: The brilliant photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) was one of the most infamous figures of the contemporary art world. Patricia Morrisroe, drawing on the numerous interviews she conducted with him and those who know him, has written a remarkable biography that reveals a life even more daring than his art.
language: English
title: Mapplethorpe
titlecomplete: Mapplethorpe
genres: Biography, Art History, LGBT, New York, Biography Memoir, Photography, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 515
publisher: Da Capo Press