Getty Museum
Rory Bernal
Robert Mapplethorpe
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Nude male cropped at the hip stretching and bending his arms up by his face and looking off to the side. He has graying curly hair and appears to be wearing powder or make-up on his face. He also has a thin moustache.
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Creator
Robert MapplethorpeAmerican Photographer · 1946–1989
All works by this person →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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