Sexual Liberation in 1970s New York
Julia Hobbs and Jamie Spence, Vogue
June 2020
It is all too easy to label the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, an original star of New York’s downtown scene, as ‘taboo-breaking’ or ‘controversial’. In truth, the images the Long Island-born artist created during his 18-year photography career (1970 to 1988) that form the subject of the newly expanded tome, Robert Mapplethorpe, are laced with something common to us all: primal lust. […]