Derrick Cross

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Derrick Cross

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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: 1983
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Muscular black male wearing snakeskin underwear poses with his right arm extended forward at an angle, one knee slightly bent and the other extended, as though dancing or gliding along a hardwood floor. His tongue sticks out slightly as he concentrates on his bodily movements.

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