Review: Robert Mapplethorpe, LACMA
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times
November 2012
Whatever happened to straight photography? The short answer is: X, Y and Z. That was the name given by Robert Mapplethorpe to 39 black-and-white pictures gathered in three portfolios of photographs he shot with a Hasselblad 500 camera and published between 1978 and ’81. (The co-publisher was Harry H. Lunn Jr., who had been a CIA agent before opening an art gallery in Washington, D.C.) The X, Y, Z Portfolios, rarely shown in their entirety, are on view through March 24 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. […]