Description
Product ID: | 9781838668211 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Mapplethorpe Flora |
Subtitle: | The Complete Flowers |
Authors: | Author: Dimitri Levas, Mark Holborn |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Individual photographers, Individual photographers, Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles, Flower arranging and floral crafts, Special kinds of photography, Flower arranging & floral crafts |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition 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. |
Imprint Name: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2024-05-09 |