This exhibition traces Robert Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography,1970 to 1975. The show brings together one hundred images, many never exhibited before. Included are self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, and portraits of lovers and friends including Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff, and Marianne Faithfull. The photographs convey tenderness and vulnerability. Others depict a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. These pictures are marked by spontaneity and invention. Together, they offer insight into the artist's creative development and reveal his pure delight in seeing at a formative time in his career.
Polaroids: Mapplethorpe” is on view through Sept. 7 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, (800) 944-8639, whitney.org.
Go See if you happen to be in New York.
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alice
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