Maplethorpe is a highly respected photographer. It’s just that some people don’t like his subject matter.
In 1990 or so just after or during the flap about his show some fool at the art teacher’s magazine, Art Education published by the National Art Education Association featured a series of little art prints suitable, they said, for display int the classroom. One of their less intelligent selections was a print by Maplethorp of a little girl in the part with the light streaming through her dress. It was a perfectly harmless image except that displaying it and having a parent find out would surely get you fired in most districts. I shook my head and let my subscription lapse.
Maplethorpe is a highly respected photographer. It’s just that some people don’t like his subject matter.
In 1990 or so just after or during the flap about his show some fool at the art teacher’s magazine, Art Education published by the National Art Education Association featured a series of little art prints suitable, they said, for display int the classroom. One of their less intelligent selections was a print by Maplethorp of a little girl in the part with the light streaming through her dress. It was a perfectly harmless image except that displaying it and having a parent find out would surely get you fired in most districts. I shook my head and let my subscription lapse.