# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-mapplethorpe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:27.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-mapplethorpe"
name: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
slug: "robert-mapplethorpe"
description: "Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s."
tagline: "American photographer (1946–1989)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Robert_Mapplethorpe%2C_Self-portrait%2C_1980.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1946-11-04"
deathDate: "1989-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.88
  momentum:             0.128110372012811
  historical:           24.97102
  currentAttention:     14.38610847147432
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544632/"
    handle:    "nm0544632"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://mapplethorpe.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/587889"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%BE"
    title: "روبيرت ماپليثورپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%BE%D9%84%E2%80%8C%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%BE"
    title: "رابرت مپل‌تورپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%AA'%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A4"
    title: "רוברט מייפלת'ורפ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%B8%D5%A2%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BF_%D5%84%D5%A5%D6%83%D5%AC%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%BA"
    title: "Ռոբերտ Մեփլտորպ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%97%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97"
    title: "ロバート・メイプルソープ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/32fbb1b9-f02c-472b-8db4-1e77a8190f7d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1319923"
    title: "Robert Mapplethorpe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump