Here visitors will find an impressive assortment of big names like Picasso, Robert Mapplethorpe and Ansel Adams.

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And a lifelong companion and muse to the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989).

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It includes signatures and messages from The Beatles, lawyer and writer John Mortimer, playwright and songwriter Noel Coward and US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe among others.

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Shamefully, the American photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe, gets only a solitary mention.

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They chose Smith because they had recently read her memoir, Just Kids, and were fascinated by the undefinable quality of the relationship she had with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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His pictures of lilies and gladiolus from the 1940s, their stamens reaching from within their sensuous centers, presage the famous flower pictures Robert Mapplethorpe made four decades later.

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The curator, Mary-Kay Lombino, has selected 39 artists and collectives some who gained notoriety in Polaroid's heyday (including Chuck Close, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joyce Neimanas, Lucas Samaras, Andy Warhol, William Wegman), as well as a good sample of young and less recognized figures (Anne Collier, Bryan Graf, Beatrice Pediconi, Grant Worth) who have continued to work with the process in the 21st century after they could have gone wholly digital.

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