Lily

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Lily

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 1984; print 2004
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
ca969b37-045e-4e8f-b2be-53d4fbd9befa

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Single speckled lily photographed from the side with its petals open and pistil emerging from the center, all set against a black background.

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