Beauty + Terror
Kevin Kopelson: Robert Mapplethorpe, 30 June 2016
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive
by Frances Terpak and Michelle Brunnick.
Getty Research Institute, 240 pp., £32.50, March 2016,978 1 60606 470 2 Show More
by Frances Terpak and Michelle Brunnick.
Getty Research Institute, 240 pp., £32.50, March 2016,
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs
by Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen.
Getty Museum, 340 pp., £40, March 2016,978 1 60606 469 6 Show More
by Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen.
Getty Museum, 340 pp., £40, March 2016,
“... In New York in the 1960s, your first sight of gay pornography may well have been in public, looking in a sex shop window. If you were a gay kid, but closeted you would have reacted with pleasure, certainly, maybe even bliss – what Roland Barthes called jouissance. But there would also have been an inexplicable, almost sickening lust, and the fear of being seen looking ... ”
