Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Name: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 25, 2016
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 75

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HBO Documentary Films | Release Date: March 25, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Using two retrospectives at LA's Getty and LACMA museums as a backdrop, this definitive portrait profiles the controversial artist from early childhood, to his beginnings in NYC and his meteoric rise in the art world, to his untimely death in 1989. [HBO]

Director: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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Kate Stables

Dec 21, 2016

Interviewing key figures in his life, they build an anecdote-rich bio. Read full review

The Guardian Nigel M Smith

Mar 24, 2016

It forces viewers to take long looks at his most controversial imagery, proving that he still has the power to provoke, seduce and enrage. Read full review

Time Out London Cath Clarke

Apr 19, 2016

A candid, often shocking documentary portrait of the great photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Mar 24, 2016

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures provides a snappy, confidently explicit overview of the photographer’s work and life that chooses not to sugarcoat the man’s ruthless ambition or seemingly exasperating personality. Read full review

Brad Wheeler

Jan 12, 2017

What we learn from the enjoyable punditry of siblings, art-world associates and former lovers is that the gorgeous provocateur was consumed with fame, and that everything and everybody was a means to that end. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Justine Elias

Apr 7, 2016

If his work still shocks, it stirs the soul, for he was a classicist reaching for the perfect form. Read full review

Allie Gemmill

Aug 11, 2016

This is a rich portrait of not only Mapplethorpe, but also the history of the New York art world in the latter half of the 20th century. Read full review

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DakotaFred

Apr 4, 2016

What with the internet and Google images these days.. this kind of "shock for ratings" garbage is entirely irrelevant. Whoopty do, the guy was a mental case with a camera in gay city USA. There are much more important things to do in life so.. NEXT.

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