{"product_id":"mapplethorpe-flora-the-complete-flowers-2024","title":"Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s flower photographs \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ein a sophisticated new edition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century’s most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera, in 1970. Beginning in 1973 and until his death in 1989, Mapplethorpe explored the flower with extraordinary dedication, using a range of photographic processes – from Polaroids to dye-transfer color works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn carefully constructed compositions, he captured roses, orchids, snapdragons, daisies, tulips and other species – both common and rare – and forever transformed the way we perceive a classic and familiar subject. The result – a stunning body of work – is collected in this elegant book, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe’s close friend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phaidon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46741235695716,"sku":"9781838668211","price":89.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/5292\/6820\/files\/mapplethorpe-flora-en-6821-standing-front-3000_8c147f51-25db-44d4-99ff-ef79e0e6bc8e.jpg?v=1764656188","url":"https:\/\/www.phaidon.com\/en-eu\/products\/mapplethorpe-flora-the-complete-flowers-2024","provider":"Phaidon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}