Altars
By: Mapplethorpe ; essay by Edmund White.
Contributors: White, Edmund, 1940-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Mapplethorpe, Robert.; Photography, Artistic.; Photography of men.
Other titles: Mapplethorpe altars
Description: "Altars is the full-color companion volume to the definitive collection of his black-and-white prints, Mapplethorpe, published in 1992. Beginning with his early collages, Polaroids, and unpublished color prints, Altars follows Mapplethorpe's preoccupation with color and geometry through a wide range of subject matter, from intimate portraits of Patti Smith to sado-masochistic rituals. The book ends with the multiple-colored panels of his late, unique photographic pieces, elaboratly framed."--book jacket.