Lily

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Lily

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 1986; print 1990
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
bc4ee76a-e64c-4531-9336-18137fc61070

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Single white lily in full bloom on the left side of the composition, photographed from the side and set against a black background. On the right side is a white wall with stark, slanted lines of window blinds casting shadows across it.

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