Robert Mapplethorpe at Sean Kelly is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

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Robert Mapplethorpe used old forms for forbidden content.

Published Jan. 20 2014 4:44PM EST

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Who else could this shot be by than Robert Mapplethorpe? It’s a 1980 image titled “Leather Crotch”, and it’s in the Mapplethorpe survey now at Sean Kelly gallery in New York.

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Robert Mapplethorpe at Sean Kelly is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Robert Mapplethorpe used old forms for forbidden content.

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