Self-Portrait

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Self-Portrait

Creator

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
negative 1980; print 1989
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
42a777c0-ce19-413f-90f5-da4b3970f02b

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Frontal self-portrait of the photographer without his shirt on and wearing women's make-up with his lips slightly parted.

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