Ajitto
Robert Mapplethorpe, American, 1946 - 1989
1981
Gelatin silver print
AP 2/3
Sheet: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Sight: 17 1/2 × 13 9/16 in. (44.5 × 34.4 cm)
Frame: 27 15/16 × 22 15/16 in. (71 × 58.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W '18 Fund, the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund, and the Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation Fund
2013.41.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Course History
WRIT 5, Memoirs of Family, Ellen Rockmore, Fall 2013
WGST 10, Sex, Gender, and Society, Giavanna Munafo, Fall 2013
WGST 37.2, GEOG 41, Gender, Space and Islam, Jennifer Fluri, Fall 2013
NAS 42, WGST 40, Gender Topics in Native American Life, Vera Palmer, Fall 2013
ANTH 31, WGST 36, Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Lauren Gulbas, Fall 2013
NAS 42, WGST 40, Gender Topics in Native American Life, Vera Palmer, Fall 2013
SART 30, Photography II, Fall 2013
SART 29, Photography I, Fall 2013
WGST 7, Masculinities Go In Between, Klaus Milich, Winter 2014
WGST 65, Queer Visual Culture, Gabriele Dietze, Winter 2014
COLT 67, AAAS 67, ENGL 54, WGST 52.1, Colonial and Postcolonial Masculinities, Ayo Coly, Winter 2014
WGST 10, Sex, Gender, and Society, Zahra Ayubi, Fall 2014
WGST 18, Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies, Eng-Beng Lim, Winter 2015
WGST 65.6, Radical Sexuality: Of Color, Wildness and Fabulosity, Eng-Beng Lim, Winter 2015
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
SOCY 7.1, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Winter 2015
WGST 7.2 , Masculinities Go In Between, Klaus Milich, Winter 2015
WGST 65.7, Queer Popular Culture, Eng-Beng Lim, Summer 2015
AAAS 67.5, GEOG 21.01, Black Consciousness and Black Feminisms, Abigail Neely, Winter 2019
PHIL 22.01, Feminism and Philosophy, Susan Brison, Summer 2020
GEOG 80.10, COVID-19, Abby Neely, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
Shadowplay: Transgressive Photography from the Hood Museum of Art, Owen Robertson Cheatham and Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 10-December 8, 2013.
Provenance
Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc., New York, New York; lent to present collection, 2013; sold to present collection, 2014.
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