Mapplethorpe: Pistils

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Vintage hardback coffee table work featuring floral photographs of renowned photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe. By Random House New York, published in 1996. First edition, 174 pages , original slipcase. "Robert Mapplethorpe began taking photographs in the 1970s with a Polaroid camera given to him by a friend. When he died in 1989 of AIDS, at the age of forty-two, he was considered one of the most important photographers of his generation, having gained a reputation as the avatar of a rigorous formalism stunningly wed to graphic and sometimes controversial subject matter." Show more