Programme about Robert Mapplethorpe

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On BBC Radio 4 right now until 11:30 9th Dec `09.

Talking about a student taking photos of photos with sexual content in a book by Mapplethorpe and the police getting involved and wanting to destroy the book, which was the property of a university library.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p66s4

 

[arclight]

I had a look at one of his books in a shop years ago. There was a pic of him with his right index finger pushed up his urethra.
Anyone who would do that has got issues.

 

[Meeten]

I saw an exhibition of his in Florence - hhmmmm
Then went to the library to borrow a book on him, and got some v strange looks from the librarian!

 

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Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 is Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s. Robert Mapplethorpe features.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qzh49 (first episode available for four more days)

 

[yukiomishima]

interesting programme and an interesting photographer

he did some work with patti smith back in the day

new york ain't what it used to be... sadly

yukioMishima

 

[Vic]

I need to watch this on catch up. I really love Mapplethorpes work, the man is a genius in photography. I have the naked photo of Patti Smith in a studio on my wall, its a belter.