Bonnie Cruickshank
Robert Mapplethorpe "Dollar Bill"
1987
Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 and died 1989. He lived through the pop art movement which inspired him to reformulate art of the past. He was known for taking picture of controversial topics such as sexuality. In 1987, the same year that Andy Warhol, a popular pop artist, died, Mapplethorpe took the picture the dollar bill. The picture was a close up full frame image of a dollar bill that was back lit to make it look like a double exposure. The image resembles a pop art picture and was done as a homage to Warhol. It is a picture of no big meaning but stood out among the rest of his work from the exhibit at the Getty Center. It was a piece of work I had never seen before.
