Michael LaRocco

Man in Polyester Suit is a photograph by American artist and provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe. The photograph is a black and white sepia toned portrait of an African American man slightly angled before the camera and dressed in a gray polyester three-piece suit with the subject’s exposed phallus dangling from his unzipped trousers. The image and lighting for the photograph is compositionally minimalist with no props or background detail appearing alongside the subject apart