Title: Altars
First published: 1992
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 Beginning with his early collages, Polaroids, and unpublished color prints, Altars follows Mapplethorpe's preoccupation with color and geometry through a wide range of subject matter, from intimate portraits of Patti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.
Subjects: Artistic Photography, Photography of men, Photography, Artistic, Mapplethorpe, robert, 1946-1989, Portrait photography
People: Robert Mapplethorpe
LC classification: TR647 .M362 1995