Was wild Mapplethorpe just another guy with a camera?

Juergen Teller’s selection of Robert Mapplethorpe shots restores the shock. But some of these pairings are more Carry On than cool still lifeI like taking photographs. I am actually starting to love taking them. I like looking at photographs, too, and sharing them. But I still can’t quite take photography seriously as art. When I walk into a gallery where photographs are the only thing on the wall, my heart sinks. Normally at an exhibition, I am the person looking longest, staring ha