Union by Roberta Fineberg, Color Photograph of Butterfly Couple yoga Brigitte Freed)

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Mapplethorpe collected Dureau's photography and Robert Mapplethorpe found much inspiration in it for his own work

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and the Middle East

2017 by Roberta Fineberg is 16" x 20" an archival pigment print in an edition of 5

Union by Roberta Fineberg, Color Photograph of Butterfly Couple yoga Brigitte Freed)From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly is reimagined in a photo series on butterflies by Roberta Fineberg inspired by a poem by the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi who writes: Whatever you know, or dont only love is real. For Union RF explores the natural and man made world in which two caterpillars break free of their skin for a metamorphosis. Hatching into exquisite creatures, the vibrant couple sip nectar from