Untitled (self-portrait) [Invitation to Robert Mapplethorpe's Exhibition at Light Gallery Opening, January 6, 1973]
  • ephemera
  • photographic process
  • loose leaves
  • loose card[s]
  • black-and-white
  • 10.5 x 13 cm.
  • [2] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Untitled (self-portrait) [Invitation to Robert Mapplethorpe's Exhibition at Light Gallery Opening, January 6, 1973]

Robert Mapplethorpe

Untitled (self-portrait) [Invitation to Robert Mapplethorpe's Exhibition at Light Gallery Opening, January 6, 1973]

description

Two-sided exhibition announcement published in conjunction with Robert Mapplethorpe's first solo show which opened in the Backroom at Light Gallery, New York, January 6, 1973. Gelatin silver print from Polaroid negative with "ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE" blind embossed along bottle right edge. Exhibition information typed onto label affixed to verso:

Robert Mapplethorpe
Backroom at
LIGHT
1018 Madison Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10021

Opening:
Saturday January 6, 1973
4:00-6:00
thru February 3

Gallery Hours
Tues. *Sat. 10-6
Closed Monday

references

Plate 182 in "Polaroids : Mapplethorpe" by Sylvia Wolf. Munich / New York, Germany / NY : Prestel Verlag / Whitney Museum of American Art, 2007, pp. 232, 243.
New York, NY: Light,
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