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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Black Book (German Edition)
Robert Mapplethorpe The Black Book - German Edition Author: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 — stage... more »d as details, as fragments of their bodies.
Stylized as classical statues or provocatively in all
their presence and sensuous radiance. Black-andwhite
photography was Mapplethorpe s preferred
medium. And his obsessive aesthetics was based on
completely mastering it, as this enabled him to visualize
any number of tonal gradations and penetrate
deep into the very pores of the gleaming black skin.
It is a method that reached a climax in these images.
The Black Book, Mapplethorpe s homage to the black
male body, has always been one of the most important