Paul Martineau
Auteur van Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs
Werken van Paul Martineau
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- Werken
- 11
- Leden
- 262
- Populariteit
- #87,814
- Waardering
- 4.2
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 12
My primary interest in a coffee table, or oversize, book is appearance, both cover and inside. This volume passes that test for me with flying colors (or mostly blacks and whites in this case). The plates are reproduced vividly and showcase the many juxtapositions in his art. From formally attired models in locations where you don't expect it to objects in places that seem less than normal. Yet they all work, largely by having the viewer be more active in looking and understanding the image.
What moved this book up for me was the biographical essay that opens the book. It is more than simply letting us know about what he did and where he lived. We learn about the environment within which he practiced his art, his ideas about different approaches, and about how events around him often gave him opportunity to grow.
I would recommend this to those interested in photography in the 20th century (and into the 21st) as well as those who simply enjoy excellent photography. Those interested in the art and business of photography will enjoy the essay as much as the plates.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (meer)