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BIOGRAFIE
| 1946 | born in Floral Park, Queens |
| 1963 | he enrolled at Pratt Institute in nearby Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. |
| 1969 | he and Patti Smith, whom he had met three years earlier, moved into the Chelsea Hotel |
| 1970 | Mapplethorpe acquired a Polaroid camera from artist and filmmaker Sandy Daley and began producing his own photographs to incorporate into the collages |
| 1970 | B.F.A |
| 1989 | died in Boston, Massachusetts |