Robert Mapplethorpe, Pictures

Robert Mapplethorpe and Dimitri Levas

Pictures

Arena Editions, 1999

This is one of very few copies still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. Most copies available online have serious flaws.

A book created in collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, presents for the first time the full range of these sexual images, which many critics believe to be the artist's most inspired work. This book is a tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe's daring vision and his enduring legacy. Edited and designed by Dimitri Levas, with text by Ingrid Sischy, PICTURES. dispenses with the intellectual, political and religious rhetoric surrounding earlier debates, allowing the photographs to speak on their own terms.

Illustrated throughout. A posthumous volume concentrating on Mapplethorpe's photographs of homosexual sex and fetishism.