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Robert Mapplethorpe: Polaroids
Sylvia Wolf
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Description for Robert Mapplethorpe: Polaroids
Paperback. Robert Mapplethorpe's black-and-white Polaroid photographs of the 1970s - a medium in which he established the style that would bring him international acclaim - are brought together in this new paperback edition. Num Pages: 254 pages, 230, 48 colour. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 180 x 23. Weight in Grams: 848.
Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. This book brings together almost three hundred images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist. These works reveal the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career. Included is a selection of his color Polaroids and objects incorporating his early "instant" photography. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. The author ... Read more
Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. This book brings together almost three hundred images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist. These works reveal the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career. Included is a selection of his color Polaroids and objects incorporating his early "instant" photography. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. The author ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Prestel
Number of pages
254
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Munich, Germany
ISBN
9783791348704
SKU
V9783791348704
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About Sylvia Wolf
Sylvia Wolf is director of the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington. She is the author of numerous critical works on photography, including The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Digital Age (Prestel).
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