Flora : the complete flowers / Robert Mapplethorpe ; edited by Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mapplethorpe, Robert, photographer.

Muschamp, Herbert, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Holborn, Mark, 1949- editor.

Levas, Dimitri, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mapplethorpe, Robert--Criticism and interpretation.

Mapplethorpe, Robert.

Photography, Artistic--20th century.

Photography, Artistic.

Flowers--Pictorial works.

Flowers.

Flower arrangement--Pictorial works.

Flower arrangement.

Flowers--Photography.

Genre:

photobooks.

Photobooks.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

367 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Phaidon Press Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

"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." --Publisher.

Contents:

Polaroids

Orchids

Roses

Irises

Tulips

Flora

Lilies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-363).

Other Edition:

Revision of: 383279168X Mapplethorpe, Robert. Dusseldorf, Germany ; New York : TeNeues, ©2006

ISBN:

9781838668211

1838668217

OCLC:

1433158018