Robert Mapplethorpe

Self Portrait
1978

A black and white photo depicting a person in a dynamic pose, wearing a sleeveless top, tight pants, and high boots, holding a rope coiled on the floor. The person is bending forward with one hand on their knee and the other holding the rope, casting a shadow on the wall behind them. The setting appears to be a simple room with wooden flooring and a plain backdrop.
A black and white photo depicting a person in a dynamic pose, wearing a sleeveless top, tight pants, and high boots, holding a rope coiled on the floor. The person is bending forward with one hand on their knee and the other holding the rope, casting a shadow on the wall behind them. The setting appears to be a simple room with wooden flooring and a plain backdrop.

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Date
1978

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 11/16 × 15 7/8in. (50 × 40.3 cm) Image: 13 7/8 × 13 15/16in. (35.2 × 35.4 cm)

Accession number
97.103.2

Edition
AP 2/2

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission

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