Robert Mapplethorpe 14864 — Robert Mapplethorpe - The Black Book
Schirmer/Mosel, 1992, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 91, German edition. The Black Book, first published in 1986, presents 96 formally stringent and highly erotic nudes, all of them photographs of black men, either as full figures, or staged as details, as fragments of their bodies. Stylized as classical statues or provocatively in all their presence and sensuous radiance. Black-and-white photography was Mapplethorpe's preferred medium. And his obsessive aesthetics was based on completely mastering it,, Goed