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With this series Mapplethorpe was, perhaps, ahead of his time.
Lyon's work with Mapplethorpe was specifically impressive due to Mapplethorpe's ability to portray her body as masculine and feminine in his photos, which shows how her body was truly one of a kind.
In 1980, Mapplethorpe began documenting the first prominent American bodybuilder, Lisa Lyon, simultaneously concealing and magnifying what she was most known for, what all American women are known for in some fashion or another: her body.
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