Choose a photograph. Type in your response.

  • Select one image and describe what it seems to express about the person shown.

  • Do you think the artist is telling the truth about him- or herself?

  • If you created a self-portrait, what would you want it to convey?





Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-Portrait, 1988. Gelatin silver print, 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm), edition 10/10. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation 98.4460