Robert Mapplethorpe: The Nymph Photography

About this book

Twenty-five years after Mapplethorpes death an overview on his nudes portraits self-portraits floral still lifes and other works compiled by the art critic Germano Celant. Robert Mapplethorpes wide provocative and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Since 1977 Germano Celant has studied the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe participating in interviews and writing essays for several publications and exhibitions. For the first time this volume gathers the complete anthology of Celants writings on the artist: from the 1983 exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny Venice with the collaboration of the artist himself to the posthumous writings published in the catalogs prepared on the occasion of the exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum New York and the Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg since 1990.This publication through over 140 images and texts that appear both personal and scientific aims to pay tribute to Robert Mapplethorpes contribution to the history of photography.