Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers
2016
Published by Phaidon30.8 x 29.2 cm368 pagesHardbackISBN 9780714871318
From 1973 until his death in 1989, Robert Mapplethorpe explored the flower with extraordinary dedication, using a range of photographic processes. In carefully constructed compositions, he captured roses, orchids, snapdragons, daisies, tulips and other species and, in doing so, forever transformed the perception of this classic subject. The results of this lifelong project are collected together, in full, in Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers, which features contributions from Mark Holborn, Dimitri Levas and Herbert Muschamp.