Register

Passings: Lisa Lyon, Bodybuilder and Mapplethorpe Muse, Dies at 70

By David Schonauer   Monday September 18, 2023


Above: Robert Mapplethorpe, “Lisa Lyon,” 1982.
_______________________


The photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is best known for his focus on masculine beauty. When it came for shooting female subjects, he once told the critic Arthur C Danto, “the creative impulse is not there.”

“Photographing women is not the experience I am seeking,” …


Pro Photo Daily