Self-Portrait

Getty Museum

Self-Portrait

Creator

Robert Mapplethorpe

American Photographer · 1946–1989

All works by this person →
ArtistMaker

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.

More on Getty ULAN
Date
negative 1983; print 1991
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
1144f7dc-3f06-4e66-9501-c2a5b6cafff6

From the Getty Museum record

Self-portrait of Mapplethorpe wearing a leather jacket with denim vest layered over it, holding a switchblade in his right hand in a menacing manner. He wears his hair in a pompadour style and gazes off to the side.

View at Getty Museum ↗

The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.t_ZCux1ZU_8FcZor.oEHFaHdUUqdo3vD_7pCDoywQ0rBfzEGJ9H8kt_OHWFWPqviVfwARqehd-IehyH311RAaRO7UGYiWdrPrw7XIqVZuGrwTgiMeK4Ed3XvipKSmKoayxSJKgIWFF7tw4babOIeipNFJsURlw5aYVvdj1iLGSCEVrzf1RRbeTJLO2_jHRjhBcjJ2Bf2TzdwosZqwCoVqk6mWsr6HHej59EVCQdq57t_9qK26jMWne3DZsu8o3VKd8A9Bs3MHZ7Q9d64TxxDlr846p2YNcfq0wXtdtsIBQtr6j7RRzwbcxLxD81WNUG6YKfK7Zh9AdNUfDIQCqF3fDdioaYXUtDE6SnAZAmS6dlRRiqNlliTMx_55ffeWP4oHhDZxHR3WOd9g32rtUSk7SedxqWdjV7f7J7uiSee at Getty Museum QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.nYE2yvNIWF-w3x2E._GI0f1aqvynBXORncoQ7hUDCGecXuzSzsM7NEDN4DRIRElvj2VpYen3TKilvDNeSFOJwP-trwPmVaVqe2tVbnXvwpyvJMPc899taC0-O9ec8247_WFtrp0HnHRbjgjQXEtK3HjmQnt5etCjyzgQR3CrUoFFYU5bepwojgXxRWhd_l_enuCCQWEnzw-CWEZqd1sDHxNm6XWpHnz0PVKoEJKk2dBzaKZ4zKG85e0WhxHcLSxZ0NRlUSgiU4_beBHckhul7u3leHAvX7GK67aZc-b6MlCGTXZP9pQ5Z-oWy8-JSDq7ZKCqiVDaX-z22pTQ_n0318PQP8rNp7S9wqG7TBb62EjdaYJ8TDDfIo-UxF5_YYd5AEO9VnBKmx5o
Open this page
See at Getty Museum

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.