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Robert Mapplethorpe
Self-portrait1973

Not on view
Mixed-media work: two black and white photographs mounted on speckled gray board, each showing a nude figure holding a Polaroid camera at the waist; the upper image has a white disk censoring the genitals, the lower does not; typeset text reading 'ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE' between them
Artist or Maker
Robert Mapplethorpe
United States, 1946–1989, active New York City
Title
Self-portrait
Date Made
1973
Medium
Gelatin silver print, mounted on gelatin silver paper and board
Dimensions
Image: 3 × 3 3/4 in. (7.62 × 9.53 cm) Sheet: 3 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (8.89 × 11.43 cm) Mount: 12 × 14 in. (30.48 × 35.56 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.2011.30.344
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography