Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe, inscribed "For Hyla"
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Author: Mapplethorpe, Robert
Title: Certain People: A Book of Portraits
Place Published: Pasadena, CA
Publisher:Twelvetrees Press
Date Published: [1985]
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Preface by Susan Sontag. Illustrated throughout with sheet-fed gravures from the b&w photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe. 35.5x27.5 cm (14x10¾"), blue cloth in photo-pictorial jacket. Printed and bound by Heraclio Fournier. One of 5000 copies, First Edition.
Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe at half-title, inscribed "For Hyla". "[Robert Mapplethorpe] is not looking for the decisive moment. His photographs do not claim to be revelatory. He is not in a predatory relation to his subjects. He is not voyeuristic. He is not trying to catch anyone off-guard. The rules of the game of photography, as Mapplethorpe plays it, are that the subject must cooperate—must be lit." - Susan Sontag, Introduction.
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Author: Mapplethorpe, Robert
Title: Certain People: A Book of Portraits
Place Published: Pasadena, CA
Publisher:Twelvetrees Press
Date Published: [1985]
Description:
Preface by Susan Sontag. Illustrated throughout with sheet-fed gravures from the b&w photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe. 35.5x27.5 cm (14x10¾"), blue cloth in photo-pictorial jacket. Printed and bound by Heraclio Fournier. One of 5000 copies, First Edition.
Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe at half-title, inscribed "For Hyla". "[Robert Mapplethorpe] is not looking for the decisive moment. His photographs do not claim to be revelatory. He is not in a predatory relation to his subjects. He is not voyeuristic. He is not trying to catch anyone off-guard. The rules of the game of photography, as Mapplethorpe plays it, are that the subject must cooperate—must be lit." - Susan Sontag, Introduction.
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