Chest / Carlton

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Chest / Carlton

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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
negative 1987; print 1989
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
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Close-up of black male's chest and abdomen draped on the left side with brocade fabric. A small patch of his pubic hair is visible in the lower part of the composition.

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