Robert Mapplethorpe (English and Japanese Edition)

Robert Mapplethorpe (English and Japanese Edition) by Robert Mapplethorpe. paperback edition. ISBN: 9784891941499.

The photographs collected in this volume or some of the least known images in Mapplethorpes oeuvre. But whether commissioned portraits or ad agency projects, the care and devotion that goes into everything Mapplethorpe does is evident throughout. Now in a mellower phase of his life, hes looking forward to doing more work with color. Readers of this work will be pleased to find some color prints, among the first ever collected in book form. (1987) Compilation of 12 color and 60 bw photographs. Short introduction by David Hershkovits in Japanese and English. Second introodution by Takano Ikuro in Japanese, not translated. There is no text with the photographs theselves. A short two-page "biographical information" chronology follows the photos, in Japanese and English.