Pistils - Hardcover

Mapplethorpe, Robert; Ashbery, John; Holborn, Mark; Levas, Dimitri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679408053 ISBN 13: 9780679408055

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1996

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Book by Mapplethorpe Robert

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Presents a rich collection of more than one hundred black-and-white and full-color photographs that capture the artist's remarkable flower images. 25,000 first printing.

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ethorpe began taking photographs in the 1970s with a Polaroid camera given to him by a friend. When he died in 1989 of AIDS, at the age of forty-two, he was considered one of the most important photographers of his generation, having gained a reputation as the avatar of a rigorous formalism stunningly wed to graphic and sometimes controversial subject matter.

Most of Robert Mapplethorpe's days began in the early afternoon, often by photographing flowers. Mapplethorpe used them to help focus his vision, centering and warming up for his commercial portrait work. The flowers also helped him to effect the transition to the more daring work, which he executed late at night.

Pistils reproduces 120 of these ravishing images of flowers, many of which have never been published. The full range of Mapplethorpe's virtuosity is displayed here--early Polaroids: exacting still lifes in black-and-white and color; and extremely rare, toned gravure prints. Not since Georgia O'Keef

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679408053
• ISBN 13: 9780679408055
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 173