
A collection of the acclaimed photographer's flower images features pieces from his final years.

Among the motifs considered to be typically Mapplethorpe--i.e. nudes, portraits, black men, and the New York gay scene--flowers had a firmly-established (albeit less spectacular) position. The first date from the seventies; the last were taken shortly before his death. Design...

The theme of flowers recurs throughout Robert Mapplethorpe's photographic work. Some of the 50 flower images in this collection, all in colour, date from the early 1980s, but many of them from the months leading to his death in 1989.

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was one of the most celebrated and controversial fine art photographers of our time. Now his classic Flowers, which made its stunning debut in 1990, is available in an elegant miniature edition--an appealing gift for Mapplethorpe fans and flower...
