His photographs of flowers are quite lovely.
So how long has he been burning in Hell? Must seem like forever to him.
I once saw a photo spread of Elton John’s house and in it were wall sized naked sex act pictures from this pervert.
I knew then Elton and that fruit he married bought kids for something other than parenting.
No one can convince me otherwise.
Don’t ever Google Maplethorpe pictures.
A liberal-ish attorney of my acquaintance said he was watching it and turned it off when they started showing some of the sex act pictures, that it was really repulsive stuff.
Ugh.
Mapplethorpe also had pictures of child porn.
I cancelled HBO many years ago because of their substandard programming. I had paid thru Dec 31st but they stopped service on Dec 30 because of the New Years holiday weekend. They cancelled it acc. to their convenience, not what I paid for, and I missed some of their New Years Eve specials. Thought that was shitty.
One time a group of friends were all at one of our houses, happened to be a gay man who lived alone. I came down with a terrible migraine and he let me lie down on his bed until my pill took effect. At some point I felt a little better and picked up the book on his nightstand and opened it. It was a Mapplethorpe book of photos. The first few were flowers and normal subjects. Then boom it went into naked men wearing weird leather emphasized their privates, and one with a whip inserted. I shut the damn book, placed it back where it had been, and closed my eyes again. Within a few minutes I heard the owner come in and remove the book he had left there. Yeah.
My experience with Mapplethorpe. Later I read Patti Smith’s autobiography, and her partner in crime and roommate was Mapplethorpe, I believe. Didn’t he die of AIDS?