For so long, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was almost always discussed in the same breath as his onetime partner, rock star and poet Patti Smith. True art connoisseurs, however, know him to be one of the most controversial photographers of recent memory, famously sending the art world into a pornography debate a year after his death …
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Source: OC Weekly