The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs in a stunning new edition. Robert Mapplethorpe is one century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1980s 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 range of photographic processes - from Polaroids to dyetransfer color works.
In carefully constructed composition, he captured roses, orchid, 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, back in print in a striking new edition, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe's close mend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp.
The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs in a stunning new edition. Robert Mapplethorpe is one century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1980s 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 range of photographic processes - from Polaroids to dyetransfer color works.
In carefully constructed composition, he captured roses, orchid, 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, back in print in a striking new edition, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe's close mend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp.