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In the mid-70s, when he was riding the wave of New York gay sado-mascohism, Robert Mapplethorpe proclaimed, "I want people to see my works first as art, and second as photography." However, critics have focused public attention on the sexually extreme subject matter of much of his work. Part of the Mapplethorpe exhibition in Dublin contained his provacatively posed Self Portrait 1978, in which a devilsh Robert slyly grins at the camera with a bullwhip fondly stuck into his leather-clad anus. |
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