Robert Mapplethorpe
Charles Bowman, NYC
1980
This ruthlessly beautiful photograph poses and crops its subject to emulate the Belvedere Torso and its close relations, Michelangelo's Prisoners . Before he discovered photography, Mapplethorpe wanted to be a sculptor. His biographer Patti Smith calls him "the boy who loved Michelangelo". You can see that here.
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