Robert Mapplethorpe
[Photographer, b. 1946, Floral Park, Long Island, d. 1989, Boston, Massachusetts.]
At some point, I picked up a camera and started taking erotic pictures—so that I would have the right raw material and it would be more mine, instead of using other people’s pictures. That was why I went into photography. It wasn’t to take a pure photographic image, it was just to be able to work with more images. 
