Alistair Butler / Torso

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Alistair Butler / Torso

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
1980
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
b6e8251b-4f88-4662-999e-7e667c7cb28c

Black male torso cropped at the neck with arms flexed slightly outward.

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