Robert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Over Sex
Tempe Nakiska, Dazed
August 2013
When Robert Mapplethorpe started taking photos, the gay scene was still operating at a tightly sealed level of underground. It was the early 1970’s: sexual liberation was raging and the photographer’s homoerotic Polaroid collages were a revealing new force in New York’s sadomasochistic scene. But underneath the iconic images we know so well runs another powerful current: fashion. […]