Real Homosexuality: Robert Mapplethorpe's Photography in a Political Landscape

Each time, the problem will result in conditions of dignity. The growing answer is that homosexuals have to be considered as ordinary because of their dignity. - Michael Warner does not have any media or arena to get rid of political assimilation. Probably this is why the word "individual is politics" is very echoing in so many communities. In the art world, each artistic work reflects personal decisions and contacts, such as the media used by artists to depict subjects and ideas, the physical form of art and artistic creations, etc. It is ownership of the work of.

Born in 1946, Robert Maple Soap fell in love with art and photography since I was young. He led to the first exhibition and began trying Polaroid to continue photography even after acquiring a camera. Maple soap took a lot of pictures, but it was "shocking". These pictures include New York 's S & M scene work and male and female nude. In 1986, when he was diagnosed with AIDS, Mapplethorpe has several committees including but not limited to designs of dance performance sets, portraits of artists in New York, and 50 artists in New York It was. Before Mapplethorpe died in 1989, he established the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, which not only greatly influenced contemporary art but also promoted and supported the continuation of art and funded medical research on AIDS.

Even after being diagnosed with HIV in 1986, Mapplethorpe continued his study. In 1988, he established the Robert Maple Soap Foundation to promote photography, to support the museum exhibiting photographic art, and to fund medical research to fight AIDS and AIDS related infections did.

At the end of the 1970s, there was a photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York. Mapplethorpe is controversial about its work depicting the homosexual community in New York. His photograph depicts sex acts with a sadistic device. The photo was popular, but his exhibits were attacked by the American family association. He tried to play in Washington, DC in 1989. If it is considered pornographic, the exhibition was canceled as the material may cause the federal funds to be lost to the museum. After the performance at Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, the director was judged obscene. Mapplethorpe himself lost his citizen's art donation fund as his work was regarded as being obscene despite his perception.