robert mapplethorpe polaroids

author: sylvia wolf paperback number of pages: 256 dimensions: 7.06 x 9.06 x 0.89 in / 17.93 x 23.01 x 2.26 cm estimated shipping date: 7-10 days from date of purchase browse the full moonlight book club here about this book: Robert Mapplethorpe’s black-and-white Polaroid photographs of the 1970s—a medium in which he established the style that would bring him international acclaim—are brought together in this new paperback edition. Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. This book brings together almost 300 images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation’s archive and private collections to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe’s formative years as an artist, revealing the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career. Included is a selection of color Polaroids and objects incorporating his early "instant" photography. Some images convey a disarmin