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- 2016
- TV-MA
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 48 m
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 48 m
Summary Using two retrospectives at LA's Getty and LACMA museums as a backdrop, this definitive portrait profiles the controversial artist from early childhood, to his beginnings in NYC and his meteoric rise in the art world, to his untimely death in 1989. [HBO]
Directed By: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 48 m
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 48 m
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
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Summary Using two retrospectives at LA's Getty and LACMA museums as a backdrop, this definitive portrait profiles the controversial artist from early childhood, to his beginnings in NYC and his meteoric rise in the art world, to his untimely death in 1989. [HBO]
Directed By: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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Interviewing key figures in his life, they build an anecdote-rich bio.
The input of the eloquent, brilliant, bitchy circle of friends with which he surrounded himself creates a portrait of the man which is every bit as candid as his work.
In the new documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato do an ultra-fine job tracing a born provocateur's commitment to his calling.
What we learn from the enjoyable punditry of siblings, art-world associates and former lovers is that the gorgeous provocateur was consumed with fame, and that everything and everybody was a means to that end.
If his work still shocks, it stirs the soul, for he was a classicist reaching for the perfect form.
Mapplethorpe comes across as remarkably candid and unassuming, though his ambition was always clear.
This is a rich portrait of not only Mapplethorpe, but also the history of the New York art world in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Production Company
Film Manufacturers,
HBO Documentary Films,
World of Wonder Productions
Release Date Mar 25, 2016
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 2 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Nomination
