Wrestler

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Wrestler

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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
negative 1989; print 2009
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
2e2a92d2-8d17-4b64-bf32-990d02a49d34

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Frontal view of Classical sculpture of young male nude wrestler holding one arm up over his head and the other hanging down by his side with clenched fist. The image is cropped at his upper thighs.

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