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With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

Robert Mapplethorpe

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe

Born: November 4, 1946

Died: March 9, 1989 (aged 42)

Bio: Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his sensitive yet blunt treatment of controversial subject-matter in the large-scale, highly stylized black and white medium of photography.

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