Mapplethorpe

Author : Paul Martineau,Britt Salvesen
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606064696

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Paul Martineau,Britt Salvesen Pdf

The legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 –1989) is rich and complicated, triggering controversy, polarizing critics, and providing inspiration for many artists who followed him. Mapplethorpe, one of the most influential figures of his time, today stands as an example to emerging photographers who continue to experiment with the boundaries and concepts of the beautiful. Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs offers a timely and rewarding examination of his oeuvre and influence. Drawing from the extraordinary collection jointly acquired in 2011 by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, as well as the Mapplethorpe Archive housed at the Getty Research Institute, the authors were given the unique opportunity to explore new resources and present fresh perspectives. The result is a fascinating introduction to Mapplethorpe’s career and legacy, accompanied by a rich selection of illustrations covering the remarkable range of his photographic work. All of these beautifully integrated elements contribute to what promises to become an essential point of access to Mapplethorpe’s work and practice. This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Mediumon view at both the J. Paul Getty Museum and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from March 15 and March 20, respectively, through July 31, 2016; at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from September 10, 2016, through January 15, 2017; and at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, from October 28, 2017, through February 4, 2018.

Author : Patricia Morrisroe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399589447

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Mapplethorpe by Patricia Morrisroe Pdf

With Robert Mapplethorpe's full endorsement and encouragement, Morrisroe interviewed more than three hundred friends, lovers, family members, and critics to form this definitive biography of America's most censored and celebrated photographer. “Eventually I found several hundred people who knew Robert Mapplethorpe in all his various incarnations—Catholic schoolboy; ROTC cadet; hippie; sexual explorer; celebrated artist; and famous AIDS victim. Their stories helped animate his pictures and bring his visual diary to life. What I discovered wasn’t one “Perfect Moment” but a series of moments—some pure, some blemished, but all emblematic of the paradoxical times in which he lived.”—Patricia Morrisroe, from the Introduction NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.

Author : Sylvia Wolf
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783791348704

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Sylvia Wolf Pdf

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. Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. This book brings together almost 300 images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation’s archive and private collections to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe’s formative years as an artist, revealing the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career. Included is a selection of 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 traces the development of Mapplethorpe’s use of instant photography over 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.

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe,Arthur Coleman Danto
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 022403605X

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Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe,Arthur Coleman Danto Pdf

Encompassing all aspects of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographic career, this book begins with his earliest unpublished Polaroid pictures, and continues with portraits of friends through to his more well-known works. By the photographer of Lady, Lisa Lyon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Some Women.

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0312083025

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Black Book by Robert Mapplethorpe Pdf

An astonishing photographic study of black men today from the acclaimed portrait photographer.

Author : Frances Terpak,Michelle Brunnick
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606064702

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Frances Terpak,Michelle Brunnick Pdf

Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, combining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his place in history. Mapplethorpe’s artistic vision helped shape the social and cultural fabric of the 1970s and ’80s and, following his death in 1989 from AIDS, informed the political landscape of the 1990s. His photographic works continue to resonate with audiences all over the world. Throughout his career, Mapplethorpe preserved studio files and art from every period and vein of his production, including student work, jewelry, sculptures, and commercial assignments. The resulting archive is fascinating and astonishing. With over 400 illustrations, this volume surveys a virtually unknown resource that sheds new light on the artist’s motivations, connections, business acumen, and talent as a curator and collector.

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe,Gordon Baldwin,Daniel Cornell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124147484

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe,Gordon Baldwin,Daniel Cornell Pdf

Author : The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3832709630

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Robert Mapplethorpe by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Pdf

Author : Philip Gefter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631490156

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Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Philip Gefter Pdf

This "admiring and absorbing biography" (Deborah Solomon, The New York Times Book Review) charts Sam Wagstaff's incalculable influence on contemporary art, photography, and gay identity. A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure who stood at the intersection of gay life and the art world and brought glamour and daring to both" (Andrew Solomon). Now, in Philip Gefter's groundbreaking biography, he emerges as a cultural visionary. Gefter documents the influence of the man who—although known today primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe—"almost invented the idea of photography as art" (Edmund White). Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe braids together Wagstaff's personal transformation from closeted society bachelor to a rebellious curator with a broader portrait of the tumultuous social, cultural, and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, creating a definitive portrait of a man and his era.

Author : Germano Celant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : PHOTOGRAPHY
ISBN : 8857222446

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Germano Celant Pdf

Robert Mapplethorpe's wide, provocative and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. The American photographer is mostly known for images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylised compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to list a few of his preferred genres. Since 1977 Germano Celant has come in contact with Robert Mapplethorpe, realising interviews and writing essays on the occasion of several publications and exhibitions. For the first time, this volume gathers the complete anthology of Celant's writings on the artist: from the 1983 exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, projected with the collaboration of the artist himself, to the posthumous writings published in the catalogues prepared on the occasion of the exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg since 1990. This book, through over 140 images and texts that appear both personal and scientific, aims to pay tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe's contribution to the history of photography.

Author : Richard Marshall,Richard Howard
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821217860

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Richard Marshall,Richard Howard Pdf

Gather nudes, portraits, and still lifes by the controversial photographer

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1892041413

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe Pdf

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.

Author : Derek Conrad Murray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350108783

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Mapplethorpe and the Flower by Derek Conrad Murray Pdf

Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy – triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life. Mapplethorpe came into international prominence due to the public response to his polarizing retrospective exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1989-1990), a ground breaking collection of images exploring three largely traditional genres of photography: the still life, the portrait, and the human figure. If there is one characteristic that unifies the artist's approach to these genres, however, it is his meticulous attention to the materiality of the photograph as object. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated formalist, committed to locating what is most beautiful about his chosen subject-producing work under carefully controlled studio conditions that enabled the development of a unique and singular aesthetic vision. Bearing this in mind, Mapplethorpe and the Flower is dedicated to unpacking how the artist's unique brand of formal sophistication and discipline, combined with his conceptual bravado, interpenetrates all of his photographs – and reaches its formal and conceptual maturation in his flower images. There has been significant critical attention paid to the artist's more notorious photographs, namely the S&M imagery, and his now infamous persona as provocateur and sexual renegade. Fixation on this dimension of the artist's mythology overshadows the formal details and interlocking representational and political commitments crosscutting the artist's oeuvre. Mapplethorpe and the Flower is a recuperative effort: one that seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist's seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations.

Author : Patricia Hickson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300214338

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Warhol & Mapplethorpe by Patricia Hickson Pdf

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture and self-portraiture that challenged gender roles and notions of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny. This exciting and original book is the first to consider the two artists together, examining the powerful portraits they created during the vibrant and tumultuous era bookended by the Stonewall riots and the AIDS crisis. Several important bodies of work are featured, including Warhol'sLadies and Gentlemen series of drag queen portraits and Mapplethorpe's photographs of Patti Smith and of female body builder Lisa Lyon. These are explored alongside numerous other paintings, photographs, and films that demonstrate the artists' engagement with gender, identity, beauty, performance, and sexuality, including their own self-portraits and portraits of one another. Essays trace the convergences and divergences of Warhol and Mapplethorpe's work, and examine the historical context of the artists' projects as well as their lasting impact on contemporary art and queer culture. Firsthand accounts by the artists' collaborators and subjects reveal details into the making and exhibition of some of the works presented here. With an illustrated timeline highlighting key moments in the artists' careers, and more than 90 color plates of their arresting pictures, this book provides a fascinating study of two of the most compelling figures in 20th-century art.

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1838668217

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Mapplethorpe Flora by Robert Mapplethorpe Pdf

The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera, in 1970. Beginning in 1973 and until his death in 1989, Mapplethorpe explored the flower with extraordinary dedication, using a range of photographic processes - from Polaroids to dye-transfer color works. In carefully constructed compositions, he captured roses, orchids, snapdragons, daisies, tulips and other species - both common and rare - and forever transformed the way we perceive a classic and familiar subject. The result - a stunning body of work - is collected in this elegant book, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe's close friend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp.