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Untitled (Jim)
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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- 1974
- Medium
- Polaroid diffusion print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Profile view facing left of white male with dark hair set against a plant in the background.
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