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This notion of difference and search for an aesthetic perfection led him to study drawing, painting and sculpture. He started to be interested in photography in the ‘70’s through a Polaroid.
In a span of nineteen years, it will create more than 200 images perfectly calculated, very graphical and powerfully erotic. His portraits, nudes and still-lifes remain of high purity, provocative with an incisive and accurate dimension resembling the look of a soul, which seeks to expose itself with its own scalpel.
Robert Mapplethorpe -Calla Lily -198692,7 x 92,7 cm Épreuve gelatino-argentique
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Don de la Fondation Robert Mapplethorpe 1997
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission
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