Lady: Lisa Lyon

A study of Lisa Lyon, bodybuilder, in a series of black and white portraits that showcase the photographer's sensitivity to form, light and texture.

Arts & Photography

CHATWIN, BRUCE

MAPPLETHORPE, Robert

Photography & Video

St Martins Pr

A study of Lisa Lyon, bodybuilder, in a series of black and white portraits that showcase the photographer's sensitivity to form, light and texture

Lady, Lisa Lyon

This collection includes much unpublished work by the well-known American photographer. The subjects include many celebrated women, such as artists, actresses and models, as well as some rarely-seen portraits of children. The writer, Joan Didion, provides an essay on Mapplethorpe's work.

Some Women

DIDION, JOAN

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Reference

RANDOM HOUSE UK

This defintive, full-color reflection of Mapplethorpe's geometric formality and underlying religiosity provides an insight into the art and career of the artist that previous black-and-white volumes cannot. An accompanying essay by Esmund White puts Mapplethorpe into historical, social, sexual, and artistic context. 100 color and duotone plates. 3 gatefolds. Slipcased.

Altars

Random House Value Publishing

A study of Lisa Lyon, bodybuilder, in a series of black and white portraits that showcase the photographer's sensitivity to form, light and texture.

Lady: Lisa Lyon by Mapplethorpe

Penguin??Books

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.

Mapplethorpe

Individual Artists

Random House]

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. Most of Robert Mapplethorpe's days began in the early afternoon, often by photographing flowers. Mapplethorpe used them to help focus his vision, centering and warming up for his commercial portrait work. The flowers also helped him to effect the transition to the more daring work, which he executed late at night. Pistils reproduces 120 of these ravishing images of flowers, many of which have never been published. The full range of Mapplethorpe's virtuosity is displayed here--early Polaroids: exacting still lifes in black-and-white and color; and extremely rare, toned gravure prints. Not since Georgia O'Keeffe has an artist looked at flowers with as developed an eye as Robert Mapplethorpe. In them he discovered sex, death, redemption, and, always, beauty. These photographs go far beyond decorative allure to place him firmly in the pantheon of the photographic masters.

Pistils

Alters

A collection of the acclaimed photographer's flower images features pieces from his final years

Flowers

Bulfinch Pr

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Lady: Lisa Lyon

Lady, Lisa Lyon

Some Women

Some Women

Altars

Lady: Lisa Lyon by Mapplethorpe

Mapplethorpe

Pistils

Alters

Flowers