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Patti Smith
Robert Mapplethorpe
- Date
- about 1973
- Medium
- Polaroid diffusion print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Poet and musician Patti Smith with short black hair and bangs. She wears a black shirt and crosses her arms as she gazes back at the viewer. Her head is tilted to the left, and the image is cropped at her waist.
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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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