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Title: Flowers by Robert Mapplethorpe ISBN: 0-8212-2019-5 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 20 May, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not quite the best available
Comment: While the photos are stunning, the presentation is a little rough. While most photos are presented with a blank page opposite there are a few photos that face other photos. This is a little jarring but worse is the two photos that are printed across the facing page. The spine break really detracts from a pair of beautiful photos.
Mapplethorpe was a genius with a camera and this book gives us many reminders of his skill. The publisher, however, lacks the artistic eye that would have prevented the distractions of a few photos that are damaged or badly placed by the layout. Minus a star because it could have been layed out better
Rating: 5
Summary: just plain beautiful
Comment: Even though Mapplethorpe is better known for his controversial black and white nude photos, this book demonstrates his careful delicacy with not only the flowers but also the controlled lighting and the subtle colors. I have loved this book since the first time I leafed through it in studio photo class.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning
Comment: Unbelivable intensity out of such simplicity. Here is Mapplethorpe's ultimate genius, astoundingly powerful from such simple set-ups. The colour, composition, lighting, choice of vases and flowers: All the basics but brilliantly done.
I saw Mapplethorpe's famous exhibition in Philadelphia just before he died,the exhibit that was banned at the Corcoran in D.C., then siezed for a while in Cincinnati. The flower photographs were dye-transfer prints, which made the colour surprisingly intense; some were almost 3' tall. People would stand for a long time in front of those, enraptured, sensing the work on several different levels at once. This book does a good job of bringing that to you. You can look at this book over and over again, put in on a coffe table to start converstaions or, after having not seen it for a while, rediscover it to be awed and inspired anew once again.
The edition I have is a 1990 paperback 12" in height; the pictures are presented one to a spread, so that there is a blank white page accross from the flower, which is a very classy touch, completely the correct way to do it.
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Title: Robert Mapplethorpe Black Book by Robert Mapplethorpe ISBN: 0312021666 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1988 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Robert Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe ISBN: 357019423X Publisher: Stern Gruner + Jahr AG & Co. Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Imogen Cunningham: Flora by Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham ISBN: 0821227319 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Flowers : Portraits of Intimacy by Adam Kufeld, Rebecca Cole ISBN: 1584790792 Publisher: Stuart, Tabori and Chang Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe by Arthur C. Danto ISBN: 0520200519 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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