ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE Two Volumes - Polaroids And 1992 HUGE PHOTOGRAPHY MONOGRAPH

Two original volumes:
(Softwraps) MAPPLETHORPE POLAROIDS, Sylvia Wolf. Published by Prestel Verlag, Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, opening May 2008.
SBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3791348704
Sylvia Wolf’s Polaroids: Mapplethorpe brings together almost 300 images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation’s archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe’s formative years as an artist. These works reveal the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career. Included is a selection of his colour Polaroids and objects incorporating his early ‘instant’ photography.
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MAPPLETHORPE. Danto, Arthur C., Published by Random House, NY, 1992. Very large, heavy hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 400pp. Gray cloth boards, blindstamped, embossed silver lettering on the spine. Hundred of black and white photographs from his early Polairoid works to his death. The book is as new. Unclipped pictorial jacket is like new in a mylar sleeve. Housed in a black and white pictorial slipcase
"This is the definitive collection of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white photographs, drawing on the full range of his work, from the early Polaroids to the haunting self-portraits taken shortly before he died. It has been prepared in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, which was established by the artist to provide funds for AIDS research and photographic projects."