2018's "Mapplethorpe" gets a Director's Cut reissue

[diocharl]

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The 2018 biopic of infamous gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith is now getting a Director's Cut reissue following the tepid response the studio cut got in its original release

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[anterrabre]

I've always had a love-hate relationship with him and his work. One one hand, he fetished Black men in an extremely disgusting way, on the other he turned the salacious into art- I've seen prints of his work and he has a beautiful way with composition and framing a shot.

[anterrabre]

Not that I've seen.

[anterrabre]

Interesting, thank you for this

[anterrabre]

I agree with your last comment but I honestly think in the context of how the pictures came to be it was pretty innocent; living in an artistic community with other artists, designers, photographers, etc I can say this sort of thing happens a lot and there's nothing perverse about it; it's not uncommon for parents to commission photographs of their children and sometimes the end results can be...interesting. In this case he was a friend of the parents and they had the pictures taken, and I also believe they wanted their photographs included in the show that went to court. If he took pictures of children like he did Black men I would definitely side eye the fuck out of him but that wasn't the case; a better argument would be the case of Eva Ionesco (whose photographer mother took nothing but nudes of her from the time she was 4 to 12 and made her "act" in erotic films, etc).