Mapplethorpe Flora

Name: Mapplethorpe Flora
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SKU: 9781838668211
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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... Read More

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Mapplethorpe Flora

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

Description

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, Mapplethorpe Flora, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe’s close friend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781838668211

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 May 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd

Contributors:

Edited by Mark Holborn
By Robert Mapplethorpe
Edited by Dimitri Levas
Introduction by Herbert Muschamp

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 292.0mm

Height: 308.0mm

Weight: 3200g

Pages: 368

Collections

Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Non-Fiction

About the Author

Mark Holborn is an editor and designer of books, as well as a writer, who has worked internationally with many leading artists and photographers. He collaborated with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation on the original, definitive volumes of Mapplethorpe’s work twenty-five years ago. He lives in England.

Dimitri Levas is a New York-based art director, whose career has spanned book design, magazine layout, set design and prop styling. He worked closely with Robert Mapplethorpe over the years, and with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation on numerous publications.

Herbert Muschamp (1947–2007) was a New York Times writer and one of the most influential architecture critics of his generation.