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Looking upwards at a rectangular building with rows of windows against a blue sky.

A person stands in the center of a room, with other people sitting around them, watching. They stand on a rumpled rug, dressed in loose white and gold clothing.

A person stands between two gazelles, which face the person. The person looks down at one, with a hand extended out towards the other gazelle.

Side view of dancers in white tutus dancing on a stage, with the audience watching on the right side of the composition.

View of a cubic, antique voting booth with a cloud of lines swirling above it.

A black statue of curving, flat, abstract shapes stands on a plaza at the corner of a city street. Behind it there are elevated train tracks, construction, and a tall white building.

Five squares contain one another. The largest is eggshell, followed in size by squares in the colors grayish light yellow, a slightly less yellow gray, a slightly less still yellow gray, terminating in a square that is a light taupe.

A rectangular, all-red canvas bordered on each side by stripes of orange.

A person in orange robes sits on a large white deer in front of a blue sky and a large white circle. In the foreground, two people in dark robes sit on the ground.

This is one in a series of nude photographs of Derrick Cross, a Black dancer who was possibly a part of the NYC gay subculture. Many of Mapplethorpe's photographs brazenly portray gay eroticism. In this picture, Derrick Cross's buttocks and thighs…