Tag: Robert Mapplethorpe
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Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Lyon 05 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Lisa Lyon, with footnotes # 6
The most-talked-about photographer of the 1980s, Robert Mapplethorpe was a belated classicist who understood how to present provocative themes in catchy visual images. After his photographic work with the New York leather scene, male nudes, and erotically-charged flower studies, Mapplethorpe turned his lens on the first female world champion in body-building. The resulting cycle is…
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Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Lyon The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes #1
Robert Mapplethorpe, (1946 – 1989) Lisa Lyon Photograph 15 1/8 by 15 1/4 in. (38.4 by 38.7 cm.) Private collection Lisa Lyon (born 1953) is a female bodybuilder and photo model from the United States, and is regarded as one of female bodybuilding’s pioneers. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1953. Lisa Lyon studied art at…
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