Leatherman #1

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Leatherman #1

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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: 1970
Medium: Mixed media
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Collage piece featuring a half-tone print of a man wearing a leather jacket and underwear sitting with a bullwhip against a red-colored background. This is covered with plastic mesh, applied with a 3-D metal star and then put inside a red frame. This frame is mounted on the left side of a flocked blue and white wall paper support. This is a unique piece framed by the artist.

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