{"product_id":"mapplethorpe-flora-the-complete-flowers","title":"Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs  in a sophisticated new edition    Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera, in 1970. Beginning in 1973 and until his death in 1989, Mapplethorpe explored the flower with extraordinary dedication, using a range of photographic processes - from Polaroids to dye-transfer color works.   In carefully constructed compositions, he captured roses, orchids, snapdragons, daisies, tulips and other species - both common and rare - and forever transformed the way we perceive a classic and familiar subject. The result - a stunning body of work - is collected in this elegant book, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe's close friend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Mapplethorpe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51666078859480,"sku":"9781838668211","price":5600.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0807\/5572\/0408\/files\/71mMJXVBq-L._SL1500.jpg?v=1778578594","url":"https:\/\/www.abcacademic.com\/products\/mapplethorpe-flora-the-complete-flowers","provider":"Academic Bookshop Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}