Self-Portrait

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Self-Portrait

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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 1983; print 2010
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
8cf47893-1f71-4143-918c-656476d52bff

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Self-portrait of Mapplethorpe wearing a black coat with upturned collar and standing in front of three overlapping, tilted squares set against a carpet background.

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