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Robert Mapplethorpe

1946 - 1989

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Robert Michael Mapplethorpe ( MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Mapplethorpe has received more than 4,078,333 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Robert Mapplethorpe is the 26th most popular photographer, the 2,055th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,953rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Photographer.

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  • 32

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  • 3.75

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Robert Mapplethorpe ranks 26 out of 148. Before him are Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz, Josef Koudelka, Richard Avedon, August Sander, and Yousuf Karsh. After him are Roger Fenton, Irving Penn, Berenice Abbott, Jan Saudek, Nan Goldin, and Guillermo Kahlo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robert Mapplethorpe ranks 151. Before him are Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Jochen Mass, Suzanne Somers, Toktar Aubakirov, Tina Aumont, and Jesualdo Ferreira. After him are Harold Shipman, Linda Ronstadt, Pēteris Vasks, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Jan Kodeš, and Francisco Varela. Among people deceased in 1989, Robert Mapplethorpe ranks 76. Before him are Victor French, R. D. Laing, Minoru Genda, Lucille Ball, Princess Deokhye, and Boris Skossyreff. After him are Arseny Tarkovsky, Kateb Yacine, Pérez Prado, Hassan Fathy, Hans Hartung, and Cesare Zavattini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Mapplethorpe ranks 2,055 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbara Liskov (1939), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Ry Cooder (1947), Tim Allen (1953), King Vidor (1894), and Warren Christopher (1925). After him are Reinhold Niebuhr (1892), James Bowie (1796), Marisa Tomei (1964), Ashley Judd (1968), Liberace (1919), and Wayne Shorter (1933).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Robert Mapplethorpe ranks 6. Before him are Vivian Maier (1926), Annie Leibovitz (1949), Diane Arbus (1923), Alfred Stieglitz (1864), and Richard Avedon (1923). After him are Irving Penn (1917), Berenice Abbott (1898), Nan Goldin (1953), Edward Weston (1886), Lewis Hine (1874), and Carl Van Vechten (1880).

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