Patti Smith

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Patti Smith

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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: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Poet and musician Patti Smith posing nude, with short, dark tousled hair. She sits and curls her body inward while holding on to a set of radiator pipes by a window in a room with dark hardwood floors and white brick walls. Her body is in profile but she turns her head to gaze directly at the viewer.

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