Lady, Lisa Lyon (A Studio book) de Bruce Chatwin

Viking Press A Studio Book. Collectible - Acceptable. 1983, 1st, black hardcovers, light mildew spots to covers, mildew odor to book, light dampstain to spine heel area, interior is clean and sound, dust jacket is edgeworn and torn, dampstain to dj bottom rear, dj soiled.

(MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT) (LYON, LISA). Mapplethorpe, Robert, Lisa Lyon & Bruce Chatwin. Foreword by Sam Wagstaff . LADY LISA LYON BY ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM LISA LYON. Signed Presentation Copy from Lisa Lyon. New York: A Studio Book - The Viking Press, 1983. First Hardbound Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 128pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Michael Shroyer. "Lady (Lisa Lyon)" is brassy and playful, strong and seductive, discreet and thoroughly uninhibited. Lady is a host of contradictions, and Robert Mapplethorpe's provocative portrait of Lisa Lyon, dynamic personality and first Women's Bodybuilding Champion, entices you to re-examine your ideas and ideals of "female". In these haunting photographs - made over a period of two years - Lyon embodies her concept of Woman of the Eighties, neither masculine nor feminine, but feline. Writer Bruce Chatwin introduces Lyon and Mapplethorpe in… Leer más

Viking, New York, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. Duotones, one of Mapplethorpe's most important books. The critic Robert Hirsch said these pictures "straddle a line between formal beauty and sexual objectification. Mapplethorpe's often classically inspired headless pictures, featuring close looks at genitalia, represent the postmodern condition that has broken everything down into fragments of specialized interest, signifying a cultural split between emotion and reason ("Seizing the Light," p. 458). Size: Quarto. 128. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust jacket price-clipped, else fine. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; United States; 1980s; Antiquarian & Rare. ISBN: 0670430129. ISBN/EAN: 9780670430123. Pictures of this item not already displayed here… Leer más

USA: Studio, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. About Fine/About Fine. 4to - over 9� - 12" tall. Hardcover with complete DJ. Generously illustrated throughout in b/w. Numerous full-page images. Signed/Inscribed/Dated by Robert Mapplethorpe to half-title page. Slightly used copy with small colour offsetting stain from black end-paper page to halftitle page. Clean, unmarked and square .

New York: The Viking Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Foreword by Sam Wagstaff and with text by Bruce Chatwin. A collection of beautiful black and white photographs of bodybuilder and model Lisa Lyon. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by both Mapplethorpe and Lisa Lyon on the half title page. A lovely copy of the much less common cloth issue of one of Mapplethorpe's best books that is very uncommon signed.

NY:: Viking,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0670430129 . Text by Bruce Chatwin. Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. SIGNED by Robert Mapplethorpe on the half-title page. Fine in a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket. ; 128 pages .