robert mapplethorpe, a photographer who took pictures like these. tirred controversy with images, some pornographic that we can't show you. but you've probably never heard of this mapplethorpe, robert's younger brother, photographer, edward mapplethorpe. >> i took no interest in being a baby photographer. >> but he does take baby pictures, hundreds of them, in fact. and full disclosure, that's my little girl haming it up for the cam ra. >> this is just one part of an extensive range of edward's work that has had very little exposure, ask that has much to do with sibling rivalry. >> we grew up in a very suburban middle class neighborhood. we had a great childhood. >> in the 1980s, robert mapplethorpe became a prominent figure in a new york city subculture of artists and performers. a recently released hbo documentary called look at the pictures tells the story of his life through the eyes of those who knew him best, including edward, who grew up idolizing his mysterious and exciting older brother. >> i can say i was his earliest fan. he would come hom

wonderful piece in the new york review in the aftermath of a censorship case involving artwork of robert mapplethorpe. his work was provocative, to say the least. he had an exhibition at the cincinnati art museum, which they decided to shut down, deciding it would be better to save the citizens of cincinnati from this artwork. a lawsuit was brought under the first amendment, not surprisingly, the cincinnati art won,m lost, mapplethorpe and the right for the art to be exhibited was upheld. he was wrote an essay where he said americans tend to over constitutionalize important matters. punishment the following. by asking the wrong question, you get the wrong answer. you get an unhelpful answer. if the question is, is the artwork protected? the question -- the answer is yes. hughes said that is an unimportant question. questionhe important is the aesthetic question -- is the art any good? some of it was good, some was ok, and some was lousy. but by constitutionalize and the question, we deprive ourselves of the question in which to have that debate. you can take it out of the art context and put it in th