Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers

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.

Author: Robert Mapplethorpe
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 05/22/2024
Pages: 368
Weight: 7.15lbs
Size: 11.80h x 12.30w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781838668211