Bacchus

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Bacchus

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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
negative 1988; print 1989
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
7f66c3a1-9e18-4678-b86e-a5c806372d42

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Classical marble bust of Roman god Bacchus with a beard and head tilted downward to the left.

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