Polaroids: Mapplethorpe (First Edition)

[Robert Mapplethorpe] Sylvia Wolf (editor)

ISBN 10: 3791338358 / ISBN 13: 9783791338354

Editore: Prestel / Whitney Museum, Munich and New York, 2007

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Hardcover. First Edition. Fine and unread, with no dust jacket as issued, in the publisher's slipcover. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Polaroids: Mapplethorpe (First Edition)
• Editore: Prestel / Whitney Museum, Munich and New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3791338358
• ISBN 13: 9783791338354
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Photographers
  • Photography
  • New York
  • Photo Books

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Riassunto

Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. Revealing the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career, this book brings together almost three hundred images, many never published, from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist. Included is a selection of his colour Polaroids and objects incorporating his early instant photographs. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, while others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. The author traces the development of Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography during a period of five years, from 1970 to 1975, when the artist worked mainly in this medium. The images include self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, portraits of lovers and friends such as Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff and Marianne Faithful and observations of everyday objects. Marked by a spontaneity and creative curiosity, these fragile images offer an illuminating contrast to the glossy perfection of the work for which Mapplethorpe is best known, allowing us a more personal glimpse of his artistry.

Informazioni sull?autore

Sylvia Wolf leitet die Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, und war zuvor Kuratorin für Fotografie am Whitney Museum of American Art wie auch am Art Institute of Chicago.