Dates
- 1933 - 2019
Creator
- Morrisroe, Patricia, 1951 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Box 2 restricted until 2035. Access to audio visual materials is restricted until digitization is complete. Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections webpage. Access to digitized audio visual materials is limited to on-site in the RMC reading room until 2035.
Extent
7.8 cubic feet.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Patricia Morrisroe papers were created and assembled in the process of writing her biography of Robert Mapplethorpe. They include original interview tapes that she recorded, interview transcripts, correspondence, research files, notebooks, catalogues of most of Mapplethorpe’s exhibitions, publishing and movie contracts, communications, book reviews, and more.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Art, American.
- Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Gay culture
- Gay erotic photography.
- Gay men.
- Mapplethorpe, Robert
- Moore, Milton
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- Nineteen eighties.
- Nineteen seventies.
- Photographers.
- Photography of men.
- Photography, Artistic -- United States.
- Portrait photography.
- Smith, Patti
- Status
- Completed
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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