("Mapplethorpe's love / obsession for Moore reached its fullest expression in the photograph some consider his masterpiece, (I do) -- Man in Polyester Suit. . .
He cropped the photograph at Moore's neck according to his agreement [with Moore], but by isolating the genitals he seemed to to be pandering to the notion that blacks existed only as sex objects.")
2. This photo of HBO’s Hung Star Thomas Jane, shot by Jill Greenberg,
was taken for V-Man‘s “Risk” issue, but not published. A khaki suit was ordered for the shoot, but Greenberg had no interest in doing a straight fashion image, so decided to create an homage to Robert Mapplethorpe’s infamous Man in the Polyester Suit photograph.
This image was eventually published in American Photography 28.
repost courtesy~ robt summers~ nyc/antebellum correspondent
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