Considering the legendary photographer's muses on what would have been his birthday ❤️
is one of those photographers it's almost impossible to grow tired of, his pictures so full of contradictions and nuances that one can return to them again and again and always discover something new. And now a brilliant newon the lauded imagemaker, by Italian art historian and critic Germano Celant, who has been writing about Mapplethorpe on and off since 1977, has provided us with the welcome opportunity to delve back into his monochrome world.
Lyon played an integral part in Mapplethorpe’s exploration of themes such as classical art and its stylization, sexuality, anatomy, and gender. He was fascinated by the way in which Lyon's muscular body defied traditional conceptions of what a female body ‘should’ look like."When I first saw her undraped it was hard to believe that this fine girl should have this form." But despite his patent interest in her physical aesthetic, Mapplethorpe’s images of Lyon resist objectifying her.
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