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Robert Mapplethorpe - Lisa Lyon , 1982
8" x 8"
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Mapplethorpe's provocative portrait of Lisa Lyon, the first World Women's Bodybuilding Champion. A commanding work of photography by a modern master of the art.
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Robert Mapplethorpe - Thomas , 1987
8" x 8"
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Robert Mapplethorpe - Ken and Lydia and Tyler , 1985
8" x 8"
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Two nude male bodies and one nude female body (in center) linked together in the "Three Graces" pose. All of their heads are cropped out of the image.
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Robert Mapplethorpe - Bob Love N.Y.C. , 1979
8" x 8"
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According to his biographer, Patricia Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe began to photograph black men around 1979 (Morrisroe 1995, p.234). As Morrisroe writes, the artist found that ‘he could extract a greater richness from the colour of their skin’ (Morrisroe 1995, p.234). In particular, the tonal range between the highlights and the shadows was more dramatic. Mapplethorpe’s decision to photograph black men made him more particular about the quality of his photographic prints than he had previously been. Taking a cue from classical sculpture, he expected black skin to approximate the colour of bronze and instructed his printer to selectively darken his pictures accordingly. Mapplethorpe’s desire to photograph black men was partly motivated by sexual fascination.
Understand Who Robert Mapplethorpe Was
There are few photographers who have sparked national debate around artistic freedom and eroticism as profoundly as Robert Mapplethorpe. Although championed for his erotic black and white photography of fetish and leather gay imagery in New York City, his artistic accomplishments range across many media. He is best known as a photographer and his subjects consisted of sculptural nudes, erotic S&M imagery, homoerotic themes, flowers, and portraits of celebrities. His formalist approach to photography allowed the artist to approach subjects primarily through beauty and composition, and secondarily through content. It is easy to find the documentary value of his work, however it is the plight for artistic expression of which he was most concerned, consistently searching for new levels of self-expression. His work continues to be considered taboo by many, yet he remains to be one of the most revered American photographers.
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Self Portrait, 1983 by Robert Mapplethorpe
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