Trailer released for new documentary on Robert Mapplethorpe

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March 8, 2016 | Arts / Entertainment

Trailer released for new documentary on Robert Mapplethorpe

HBO has released its first teaser for a documentary on the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures takes its name from a speech given on the floor of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms where he attacked Mapplethorpe’s work as obscene. Helms repeated “Look at the pictures!” while calling the artist a degenerate.

The documentary will air in April, and will explore Mapplethorpe’s “most shocking and forbidden images…without blurs, without snickers — in other words, exactly as the artist intended.”

Included in the documentary will be some recently found audio, allowing the deceased artist to help explain his own story.

March 8, 2016 | Arts / Entertainment

Trailer released for new documentary on Robert Mapplethorpe

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