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[Sotheby’s, New York, <i>Photographs</i>, October 8, 1997, sale 7024, Lot 455]; purchased via the above sale by the Princeton University Art Museum, October 1997. </p>\n<p>\n \t<br /></p>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"While studying drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Pratt Institute in New York, Mapplethorpe began making collages that incorporate photographs. The Polaroid camera’s ability to print a photograph almost instantaneously created a new immediacy between the experience of taking a photograph and seeing the image. Here, Mapplethorpe welcomes the viewer into his creative process, contorting his body while shooting with a Polaroid camera. 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