Felix Brown

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Felix Brown

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Robert Mapplethorpe

American Photographer · 1946–1989

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A key figure in late 20th-century photography, Mapplethorpe created work with a distinctive tension between opposites: sacred and profane, mainstream and underground, light and dark. From his early Polaroid portraits, to his fashion photography and later controversial work, Mapplethorpe's photographs are well-ordered and emotionally restrained, with dangerously chaotic and sensuous elements below.

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Date
1984
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
0630ba76-02e9-44e1-bd8d-38701aa10a64

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Head and bare shoulders portrait of black male with a part in his hair and arched eyebrow sitting in front of a black circle which frames his head and shoulders.

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