Robert mapplethorpe and erotic or obscene

Description:The association is unfair for at least two major reasons. His photographs also dealt with the still life or portrait as their subject, and his own records indicate an uneasiness about including his sexually explicit, homoerotic, and sadomasochistic photographs amongst artistic collections of his work. The Perfect Moment first appeared in Philadelphia in the fall of , under the curatorship of Janet Kardon, the images in the exhibit were largely critiqued by the art world in terms of overly formalist principles, with little application of the term of obscenity.

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