Robert Mapplethorpe

Edited and designed by Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas, with an essay by Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp. 

 

The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition

 

Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century’s most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera, in 1970. Beginning in 1973 and until his death in 1989, Mapplethorpe explored the flower with extraordinary dedication, using a range of photographic processes – from Polaroids to dye-transfer color works.

 

In carefully constructed compositions, he captured roses, orchids, snapdragons, daisies, tulips and other species – both common and rare – and forever transformed the way we perceive a classic and familiar subject. The result – a stunning body of work – is collected in this elegant book, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe’s close friend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp.

 

Published by Phaidon

(Currently unavailable for purchase from Gladstone) 

 

Hardback

308 × 292 mm (12 1/8 × 11 1/2 in)

368 pp

200 illustrations

ISBN: 9781838668211