Robert Mapplethorpe - Flowers - 1990
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Robert Mapplethorpe – Flowers, a first edition hardback with dust jacket, published in 1990 by Bulfinch, in English, 102 pages, 31 × 26 cm.
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ロバート・マプルソープの Flowers は、写真家の反復的な主題の一つを remarkableに探究した書籍であり、植物形態を美、構造、官能性の厳密に管理された研究へと変換する彼の能力を代表する例です。
シュirmER/Mosel がミュンヘンで1990年に刊行した Flowers は、花のエレガントな静物画を、彼の肖像や人体研究に特徴的な正確さと形式的な規律と同じ水準で撮影した作品群を結びつけています。チューリップ、蘭、ユリ、バラなどの植物的主題は、単純な背景に孤立させられ、形、質感、繊細な欠点が中央の焦点になるようにされています。
マプルソープは各花をほぼ彫刻的な物体として捉えます。彼の正確な構図と慎重に統制された照明は、対称性、ボリューム、表面を強調し、花の繊細さと写真処理の厳格さの対比が作品の独特の緊張感の多くを生み出します。画像は同時にクラシックでも現代的で、官能的でも厳粛でもあるように見えることがあります。
本書は、マプルソープが一見単純な主題の中に驚くべき視覚的強度を見出し得たことを示しています。Flowers は、従来の植物学的研究というよりも、美・形・存命のはかなさについての瞑想となり、自然界と、彼の写真術全体に走る美学的関心とを結びつけています。
この版は **first edition, second printing**、1990年にシュマー／モゼル刊行のものです。マプルソープの作品群の中で重要な刊行物を代表し、彼が生涯を通じて繰り返し取り上げたテーマの一つを親密に見る機会を提供します。
Seller's Story
Dartbooks is a specialized photography bookshop based in Barcelona, dedicated to photobooks, rare and out-of-print editions, and historically significant publications. With a strong focus on Japanese photography, Dartbooks was founded to provide continuity to a field that requires depth, expertise, and careful curation.
The bookshop was established after the closure of Kowasa, a landmark reference for photography books in Spain. Its disappearance left a clear gap for photographers, collectors, and institutions in need of a space with a serious and knowledgeable approach to the photobook. Dartbooks emerged in response to that need, not as a replacement, but as part of the natural evolution of a cultural ecosystem.
Dartbooks operates with a curatorial mindset, shaped by long-term engagement with photography and book collecting. The project functions as a book hunting platform for collectors, professionals, and libraries worldwide, and also provides advisory support to other bookshops seeking to develop coherent and specialized photography collections.
The catalogue includes new publications, rare and out-of-print titles, monographs, retrospectives, self-published works, signed copies, and editions produced directly by photographers through their own imprints. The selection reflects a sustained commitment to photography as a form of visual narration, where images construct meaning beyond text.
Although rooted in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona, Dartbooks serves an international audience. Its community includes collectors, professionals, and institutions from France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and beyond, both through the physical space and the online platform.
Dartbooks understands the photobook not merely as an object of consumption, but as a cultural artifact that documents artistic practices, historical contexts, and personal visions. The bookshop functions simultaneously as a place of discovery, an archive in constant growth, and a point of connection between photographers, publishers, and readers.
ロバート・マプルソープの Flowers は、写真家の反復的な主題の一つを remarkableに探究した書籍であり、植物形態を美、構造、官能性の厳密に管理された研究へと変換する彼の能力を代表する例です。
シュirmER/Mosel がミュンヘンで1990年に刊行した Flowers は、花のエレガントな静物画を、彼の肖像や人体研究に特徴的な正確さと形式的な規律と同じ水準で撮影した作品群を結びつけています。チューリップ、蘭、ユリ、バラなどの植物的主題は、単純な背景に孤立させられ、形、質感、繊細な欠点が中央の焦点になるようにされています。
マプルソープは各花をほぼ彫刻的な物体として捉えます。彼の正確な構図と慎重に統制された照明は、対称性、ボリューム、表面を強調し、花の繊細さと写真処理の厳格さの対比が作品の独特の緊張感の多くを生み出します。画像は同時にクラシックでも現代的で、官能的でも厳粛でもあるように見えることがあります。
本書は、マプルソープが一見単純な主題の中に驚くべき視覚的強度を見出し得たことを示しています。Flowers は、従来の植物学的研究というよりも、美・形・存命のはかなさについての瞑想となり、自然界と、彼の写真術全体に走る美学的関心とを結びつけています。
この版は **first edition, second printing**、1990年にシュマー／モゼル刊行のものです。マプルソープの作品群の中で重要な刊行物を代表し、彼が生涯を通じて繰り返し取り上げたテーマの一つを親密に見る機会を提供します。
Seller's Story
Dartbooks is a specialized photography bookshop based in Barcelona, dedicated to photobooks, rare and out-of-print editions, and historically significant publications. With a strong focus on Japanese photography, Dartbooks was founded to provide continuity to a field that requires depth, expertise, and careful curation.
The bookshop was established after the closure of Kowasa, a landmark reference for photography books in Spain. Its disappearance left a clear gap for photographers, collectors, and institutions in need of a space with a serious and knowledgeable approach to the photobook. Dartbooks emerged in response to that need, not as a replacement, but as part of the natural evolution of a cultural ecosystem.
Dartbooks operates with a curatorial mindset, shaped by long-term engagement with photography and book collecting. The project functions as a book hunting platform for collectors, professionals, and libraries worldwide, and also provides advisory support to other bookshops seeking to develop coherent and specialized photography collections.
The catalogue includes new publications, rare and out-of-print titles, monographs, retrospectives, self-published works, signed copies, and editions produced directly by photographers through their own imprints. The selection reflects a sustained commitment to photography as a form of visual narration, where images construct meaning beyond text.
Although rooted in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona, Dartbooks serves an international audience. Its community includes collectors, professionals, and institutions from France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and beyond, both through the physical space and the online platform.
Dartbooks understands the photobook not merely as an object of consumption, but as a cultural artifact that documents artistic practices, historical contexts, and personal visions. The bookshop functions simultaneously as a place of discovery, an archive in constant growth, and a point of connection between photographers, publishers, and readers.
Details
書籍数
1
主題
Photography
書籍タイトル
Flowers
著者/イラストレーター
Robert Mapplethorpe
コンディション
Very good
最古の発行年
1990
高さ
31 cm
エディション
1st Edition
幅
26 cm
言語
English
原語
はい'
出版社
Bulfinch
装丁/素材
Hardback
付属品
Dust jacket
ページ数
102
