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Robert Mapplethorpe was already illustrious and controversial during his lifetime. After his death, a victim of AIDS in 1989, discussions resumed with a vengeance around pornography and racism. The style of his photographs of nudes is easily recognizable. Mapplethorpe is photographing body-builders, man or woman, white or black. The faces are of little interest, it is the power of the muscles th…