Robert Mapplethorpe: Flora, The Complete Flowers (Phaidon Reprint)
Mark Holborn, Dimitri Levas, Herbert Muschamp, Robert Mapplethorpe
Phaidon, 2024 (reprint)
€89,95
On our website, in the antiquarian section, we also have the original 2016 boxed edition of this book on sale, and we send it in the original cardboard packaging.
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.
ISBN: 9781838658211
