Robert Mapplethorpe: Certain People. Hardcover 3rd Ed Portrait Photog. Unopened!

Robert Mapplethorpe: Certain People. Hardcover with dust jacket, Twelvetrees Press 3rd Edition. Limited edition. 112 pages. 14" x 11". ISBN 9780942642148 93 gravure plates. Introduction by Susan Sontag. Like new condition. Unopened in publisher's original shrink wrap. No defects observed through shrink wrap. Free domestic shipping USPS Media Mail. 'Mapplethorpe wants to photograph everything; that is, everything that can be made to pose......What he looks for, which could be called Form, is the quiddity or isness of something. Not the truth about something, but the strongest version of it.' So wrote Susan Sontag in her introduction for this 1985 magnum opus of the portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe, beautifully published by Twelvetrees Press.In this oversized book each age is filled with a portrait of people either famous or infamous or simply interesting. Susan Sontag is here, as is Andy Warhol, a very young Richard Gere, Donald Sutherland, artist Cindy Sherman, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, William Burroughs, Frank Langella among celebrities, as well as multiple self-portraits and even some very sensitive portraits of children. There are models from various media and three are friends of the artist who simply were interesting to Mapplethorpe's vision.