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Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (/ ˈ m eɪ p əl ˌ θ ɔːr p / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes , self-portraits, and still-life images.
The Perfect Moment was the most comprehensive retrospective of works by New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The show spanned twenty-five years of his career, featuring celebrity portraits, self-portraits, interracial figure studies, floral still lifes, homoerotic images, and collages. The exhibition, organized by Janet Kardon of the ...
Self-portrait: Nora Heysen: Mme Elink Schuurman (Winner: Archibald Prize 1938) Nora Heysen The Hon. John Lane Mullins: Leon Hogan Miss M. Parsons: Ethel Holmes Portrait of a lady: Tom Hubble Mrs Francis V. Molyneaux: Tom Hubble Frederick E. Baume, Esq. J. C. Hutchings Self-portrait: Rupert Hutter Self-portrait: Reginald Jerrold-Nathan Miss ...
Technically speaking, one of the earliest known photographs of a person also qualifies as the first selfie. In 1839, photography pioneer Robert Cornelius took a photo of himself using the ...
Robert Cornelius (/ k ɔːr ˈ n iː l i ə s /; March 1, 1809 – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography.His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a very important achievement for self-portraiture.
Self-portraiture, or Autoportraiture is the field of art theory and history that studies the history, means of production, circulation, reception, forms, and meanings of self-portraits. [1] [2] [3] Emerging in Antiquity and becoming popular from the Renaissance as an artistic practice, as a specific field of study, self-portraiture is recent ...
Brontë family. Patrick Branwell Brontë ( / ˈbrɒnti /, commonly /- teɪ /; [1] 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was an English painter and writer. He was the only son of the Brontë family, and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Brontë was rigorously tutored at home by his father, and earned praise for his poetry and ...
Freeman Woodcock Thorpe (or Thorp; June 16, 1844 – October 20, 1922), born in Geneva, Ohio, was an American painter who painted portraits of many notable people such as Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses Grant, Simon Cameron, Salmon Chase, Robert Smith, Horace Greeley, Walter Forward and Robert E. Lee.