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羅伯特．梅普爾索普
Self-Portrait
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- £30,000 - 40,000
拍品詳情
Gelatin silver print.
1983
38.6 x 38.6 cm (15 1/4 x 15 1/4 in.)
Signed, dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, titled, dated, numbered 9/10 in an unidentified hand, all in ink, Estate and Robert Mapplethorpe copyright credit reproduction limitation and signature stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount.
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"‘Magic’ was a frequent term in Mapplethorpe’s discourse, and we have no better word for stating what makes his photographs so remarkable."
Arthur C. Danto
Arthur C. Danto
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羅伯特．梅普爾索普
American | B. 1946 D. 1989After studying drawing, painting and sculpture at the Pratt Institute in the 1960s, Robert Mapplethorpe began experimenting with photography while living in the notorious Chelsea Hotel with Patti Smith. Beginning with Polaroids, he soon moved on to a Hasselblad medium-format camera, which he used to explore aspects of life often only seen behind closed doors.By the 1980s Mapplethorpe's focus was predominantly in the studio, shooting portraits, flowers and nudes. His depiction of the human form in formal compositions reflects his love of classical sculpture and his groundbreaking marriage of those aesthetics with often challenging subject matter. Mapplethorpe's style is present regardless of subject matter — from erotic nudes to self-portraits and flowers — as he ceaselessly strove for what he called "perfection of form."
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