Mapplethorpe: view at the Pictures,a new HBO documentary by directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, explores how sex and controversy fuelled the art of Robert Mapplethorpe, or the photographer whose black and white pictures of gay erotica shocked Americans. Showing an artist who was reviled by the moral wing and estranged from his conservative father,the documentary is released in the UK on 22 April
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Source: theguardian.com