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Globe and Mail - Mar 12, 2010
Lover of Sam Shepard and Jim Carroll, Robert Mapplethorpe and that short guy who played keyboards and bass in Blue Oyster Cult. There was a time (and, ...

Robert Mapplethorpe: Perfection in Form

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Culturekiosque - Feb 21, 2010
Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe in the museum of Michelangelo, the temple of Form. Curated by Franca Falletti and Jonathan Nelson, this exhibition ...

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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Black Book

by: Ntozake Shange
A classic, indeed perhaps the best of the Mapplethorpe
books. And for many most certainly the most
typical Mapplethorpe, now available once again
thanks to this re-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.
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Flowers

While the photos are stunning, the presentation is a little rough. While most photos are presented with a blank page opposite there are a few photos that face other photos. This is a little jarring but worse is the two photos that are printed across the facing page. The spine break really detracts from a pair of beautiful photos.
Mapplethorpe was a genius with a camera and this book gives us many reminders of his skill. The publisher, however, lacks the artistic eye that would have prevented the distractions of a few photos that are damaged or badly placed by the layout.
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Robert Mapplethorpe: Autoportrait:

by: Richard Marshall
Robert Mapplethorpe was never afraid of revealing his true self and personal sexuality to the world. He shocked many people with his "in your face" attitude. He wanted the world to realize that we're all sexual beings who shouldn't be ashamed of our bodies or sexual desires. Life is for living, and he lived it to the fullest. There have been many books published about Mapplethorpe, but this volume is a very personal collection of his black and white Polaroid photographs he took of himself in the early 1970's.
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A Season in Hell

by: Arthur Rimbaud
There are several editions of this book published. They have been thoroughly reviewed, so I will just review this edition, not the material itself.

As you can see by the photograph, it has a red cover and black spine. On the front cover and the title page there is a picture of a shirtless horned man. This book contains black and white photographs, by Robert Mapplethorpe, placed just about at the beginning of every section. I do not like them and I think they are a distraction from the text.
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