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Robert Mapplethorpe
Untitled (Self-Portrait)circa 1973

Not on view
Small black and white photograph mounted on a cream mat, showing an extreme close-up of an upside-down face with mouth wide open, pale skin, and stubble, against blurred foliage
Gelatin silver print, extreme close-up of an upturned face with mouth open and tongue extended, chin and nose visible above a flat white ledge, blurred foliage in background
Artist or Maker
Robert Mapplethorpe
United States, 1946–1989, active New York City
Title
Untitled (Self-Portrait)
Date Made
circa 1973
Medium
Diffusion transfer print
Dimensions
Image: 3 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (8.89 × 11.43 cm) Frame: 11 11/16 × 11 11/16 × 1 1/8 in. (29.69 × 29.69 × 2.86 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to The J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Accession Number
M.2011.30.161
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Danto, Arthur C. Mapplethorpe. New York: Random House, 1992.
  • Marshall, Richard. Robert Mapplethorpe: Autoportrait. Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 2001.
  • Mapplethorpe: Altars. New York: Random House, 1995.
  • Wolf, Sylvia. Polaroids: Mapplethorpe. Munich: Prestel, 2007.