Robert Mapplethorpe - Flora Les fleurs de Mapplethorpe

Title: Flora : Les fleurs de Mapplethorpe
Author: Robert Mapplethorpe; Mark Holborn; Dimitri Levas; Herbert Muschamp
367 pages - 2016
Publisher: PHAIDON FRANCE
36 x 6 x 32 cm (approx)

Very heavy book, Mint Boxed

Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A 1989 exhibition of Mapplethorpe's work, titled Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, sparked a debate in the United States concerning both use of public funds for "obscene" artwork and the Constitutional limits of free speech in the United States.

This large and heavy book is new, in new condition, still sealed in plastic. The book (in a slipcase) comes with the original cardboard box. See photos.

Photos of the text block are from a different copy and for reference only.