With which art form do you associate Ansel Adams and Robert Mapplethorpe?
Robert Mapplethorpe Since his death, the Foundation has not only functioned as his official estate and helped promote his work throughout the world, but has also raised and donated millions of dollars to fund medical research in the fight against AIDS and HIV infection and to promote fine art photography at the institutional level. The Foundation also determines which galleries represent Mapplethorpe's art. In 2011, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation donated the Robert Mapplethorpe Archive, spanning from 1970 to 1989, to the Getty Research Institute. Mapplethorpe worked primarily in a studio, and almost exclusively in black and white, with the exception of some
Robert Mapplethorpe Mapplethorpe decided to show his latest series that he explored shortly before his death. Titled "Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment", the show included photographs from his X Portfolio, which featured images of urophagia, BDSM and a self-portrait with a bullwhip inserted in his anus. The show was curated by Janet Kardon of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The ICA was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Mapplethorpe's exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The cancellation of the show, which terminated the Corcoran's contract with the ICA, was due to the fact that