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 1979; print 2003
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
db0f8d18-218d-4cb0-9e53-1b8b65d27524

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Single lily stem with several blooms in a tube-like vase on the right half of the composition. The shadow cast by the flowers is on the left side of the composition.

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