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Signed early publication by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989).

Edited by Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, the at that time agent of Mapplethorpe in Europe.

Black Males by Robert Mapplethorpe - Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, 1980 - Softcover - 28.1 x 21.9 cm - 57 pp. 

42 black and white photos of black models and a self-portrait.

With an introduction by Edmund White.

Signed.

Condition: name in ink versus the french title. The cover has very slight discolouration. Otherwise in good condition.

The lot will be adequately packaged and shipped with Track & Trace and insurance.

'When Robert Mapplethorpe looks at black men, he sees them in one of the too few modes of regard available to a white American today: he sees them either aesthetically or erotically. 
No wonder that they are the only two innocent and honest modes left by which the races can look at each other. And no wonder that they are the modes of regard chosen by Robert Mapplethorpe, who has always, thank the gods, been shockingly irresponsible in his work.' (Edmund White)

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Signed; Robert Mapplethorpe - Black Males - 1980

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