Why not Google Images?
When you do a Google Image search:
- You can't be sure the images are by the artist you searched, sometimes they are just on the same page that mentions your artist
- You get a lot of different versions of the same work: different lighting, different coloring, different cropping. Which one is the most accurate representation of the actual work of art?
- You don't know how to cite the image, or if the person who published that pic really had the rights to do so
Instead of a Google Image search, use Artstor!
The library pays for this database of high-quality images.
Go to library.artstor.org and search for Robert Mapplethorpe
Double click on an image to look closer (make sure you don't have pop-ups blocked)
Click the + icon to zoom in on your image. Click the i icon to get more info about it.
Finding Videos
You can find a lot of great stuff on YouTube, but you might also want to try searching Kanopy, a streaming movie service we provide. Click this link and browse around to find great full-length films!
