Product Description: Today, Robert Mapplethorpe is recognized as firmly an artist of his time, whose work was richly steeped in the classical tradition. Even his most transgressive work borrowed heavily from the conventions of such masters as Michelangelo...read more

The definitive collection of nearly three hundred duotone photographs chronicles the development of Mapplethorpe's career, in a collection that includes his society portraits, nudes, floral still lifes, and explicit erotic images. 20,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

Product Description: Robert Mapplethorpe never concealed his interest in and passion for the human figure in all its sensuous manifestations. His celebrated black-and-white photographs from the later part of the 20th century reveled in the athletic body, the nude body, the exquisite body...read more

Product Description: Famous for his early 1970s leather scenes with an explicitly homosexual symbolism, Robert Mapplethorpe’s work became more varied over the years. Along with his heavy pornographic and sadomasochistic images he also devoted himself to classical genres, such as portraits, nudes, flowers, and still lifes...read more

A classic, indeed perhaps the best of the Mapplethorpebooks. And for many most certainly the mosttypical Mapplethorpe, now available once againthanks to this re-edition.The Black Book, first published in 1986, presents 96formally stringent and highly erotic nudes, all of themphotographs of black men, either as full figures, orstaged as details, as fragments of their bodies.Stylized as classical statues or provocatively in alltheir presence and sensuous radiance. Black-andwhitephotography was Mapplethorpe s preferredmedium. And his obsessive aesthetics was based oncompletely mastering it, as this enabled him to visualizeany number of tonal gradations and penetratedeep into the very pores of the gleaming black skin.It is a method that reached a climax in these images.The Black Book, Mapplethorpe s homage to the blackmale body, has always been one of the most importantvisual contributions to the discussion on beauty,sensuality, and sexuality in photography.

Product Description: Collected in this portfolio are images from one of the late twentieth century's master photographers. During the 1970's and 1980's, Robert Mapplethorpe created an elegant and provocative body of work - homoerotic images, floral still lives, pictures of children and commissioned portraits - that managed to combine often-outrageous content with an intensely controlled presentation...read more

Showcases sixty-five self portraits, many previously unpublished and culled from his earliest works, that offer insight into the photographer's complex personality and self-explorations.

Product Description: Mapplethorpe, Robert, and Dimitri Levas. Pictures. Arena Editions, 1999. ISBN 1892041162

Product Description: Aperture 148DeliriumSummer 1997Guest edited by W. M. Hunt, this issue of Aperture features work by photographers and scientists in their efforts to capture delirium on paper. Images ranging from contemporary through nineteenth-century show how delirium, clinical or colloquial, has been documented, analyzed, codified, worked over, and wondered about for the last 150 years, together creating a psychic agitation that can be as dark as it is witty...read more

Presents a rich collection of more than one hundred black-and-white and full-color photographs that capture the artist's remarkable flower images. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: A cult classic first published in 1983, Lady: Lisa Lyon is a groundbreaking collaboration between Mapplethorpe and bodybuilder-performance artist Lisa Lyon that is startlingly up-to-date in its questioning of gender, stereotype, and role-playing. 115 duotone photos.

A full-color companion volume to Mapplethorpe's black-and-white collection includes previously unpublished early Polaroids and collages that offer insight into the artist's developing style. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: "Some Women" is Robert Mapplethorpe's breathtakingly elegant homage to female beauty. One of the most controversial and, ultimately, canonized photographers of our time, Mapplethorpe died in March 1989, at the peak of his critical acclaim...read more

A pocket-sized, jacketed gift release of a successful photographic classic features the artist's bold and colorful style, designed for the appeal of both Mapplethorpe fans and flower lovers. Reprint.