"Actor: Robert Mapplethorpe"

• Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures | DVD | (01/08/2016) from £5.40   |  Saving you £10.59 (196.11%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is the first definitive, feature length portrait of the controversial American artist Robert Mapplethorpe since his death from AIDS in 1989. The one thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs was his life. Intimate revelations from family, friends and lovers are topped only by Mapplethorpe's candor, revealed in a series of rediscovered, never before heard interviews, made public here for the first time. This is the unique portrait of an artist who turned photography into contemporary fine art with a bold vision that ignited a culture war still raging to this day.

• Black, White And Gray | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Black White And Gray is a documentary which documents the relationship between curator Sam Wagstaff legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith. Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth Wagstaff became Mapplethorpe's lover during the heady years of the 1970s and 19980s in New York City. The city was abuzz with a new spirit and Mapplethorpe would be at the centre of it. Wagstaff's death from AIDS In 1987 and later Mapplethorpe's in 1989 marked the end of an era. Black White And Gray reveals the the truth behind this powerful relationship and the influence their collective work continues to have over present-day art and culture.