Ajitto

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Ajitto

Creator

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 1981; print 1991
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
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Nude black male sitting with his head tucked down in a fetal position on a stool, his body oriented to the left.

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