Robert Mapplethorpe

Looking at Mapplethorpe’s Polaroids, I learn that heliked shoes and armpit crotch-shots of men and women,both shaved and un’—all giving a good whiff to the camera.But best of all are his pictures of ordinary phoneswhich convey a palpable sense of expectancy as ifat any moment, one of the fabulous, laconic nude menstrewn about might call.…