FENTON BAILEY & RANDY BARBATO
Robert Mapplethorpe’s legacy is huge – not only was he a brilliant and controversial photographer, with his documentation of New York’s leather scene, but he did more than any other artist to have photography recognised as an art form. It’s incredible to think of now, but until the 1980s photography just wasn’t considered art. In the course of his life, Mapplethorpe enlisted the great and the good to his cause, catapulting himself to fame. Now his legacy is being examined properly for the first time on film by directors Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato.