テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「#GettoKnow Born in 1946 in Queens, New York, Robert Mapplethorpe was one of six children, brought up in a strict Catholic environment. When he was sixteen he enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. In 1970 he bought a Polaroid camera so he could take photographs to use in his collages. But he began to appreciate the quality of Polaroid photographs in their own right and his first solo exhibition, in 1973 at the Light Gallery in New York City, was called Polaroids. Two years later Mapplethorpe bought a more sophisticated camera, a Hasselblad medium format camera, and began photographing the people he knew. Artists, musicians, pornographic film stars, and other members of the New York underground scene were all captured on Mapplethorpe's camera. Mapplethorpe’s career flourished in the 80s and he continued to explore and refine his techniques and formats. He also worked on commercial projects, creating album cover art for the musician Patti Smith and the band Television, as well as a series of portraits and party pictures for Interview Magazine. Despite (or perhaps because of) being diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, he accelerated his creative efforts, undertaking increasingly ambitious projects. In 1988, a year before his death, he had his first major exhibition at @whitneymuseum. From portraits of iconic figures in the art and music world to powerful and moving self-portraits, Mapplethorpe’s work can be found in the collections of major museums around the world. Beyond the art-historical and social significance of his work, his legacy lives on through the work of the @robertmapplethorpefoundation. He established the Foundation in 1988 to promote photography, support museums, and to fund medical research in the fight against AIDS and HIV-related infection. Click the link in our bio for a closer look at Mapplethorpe's life and work. Robert Mapplethorpe portraits: The Artist (Self Portrait) 1980, Patti Smith 1975, Truman Capote 1981, Louise Bourgeois 1982, Grace Jones 1984 & Roy Lichtenstein 1985.」9月16日 2時26分