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Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in Floral Park, Queens. Of his childhood he said, "I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave."

In 1963, Mapplethorpe enrolled at Pratt Institute in nearby Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. Influenced by artists such as Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, he began experimenting with different materials in mixed-media collages, including photographs cut from books and magazines. He acquired a Polaroid camera in 1970 and started taking his own pictures to use in the collages, saying he felt "it was more honest." That same year he moved into the Chelsea Hotel with then and future creative partner, Patti Smith, whom he had met in 1967.

for full biographie and his work watch out:

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