Karen Allen

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Karen Allen

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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
1983
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
a7d59390-4582-465c-9329-b12264521247

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Actress Karen Allen with brown hair wearing a long white peasant dress while holding one hand behind her neck to hold her hair back and the other by her waist. She stares at the viewer with wide eyes, head tilted to the left and lips slightly parted.

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