Colour photographs 1980-1989. Reprint, 5th edition
Among Mapplethorpe’s “vintage”motifs – nudes, portraits, black people, New York homosexuals – flowers always had their place illustrating the artist’s overall theme: sexuality stylized into still life.

Schirmer/Mosel. With a text by Patti Smith. 108 pages, 50 colour plates, hardcover, 25 x 30 cm, English/German edition.