ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989) PATTI SMITH (1946) MONOGRAPH. 1987. 1 VOLUME. IN ENGLISH.

(New York) Bellport Press, 1987. Hardback with flapped dust jacket, unpaginated (31 pp.), 18 illustrations (photographs inserted and glued onto each page). First edition, limited to 2,000 copies. The book presents a series of photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, accompanied by texts by Patti Smith. A monograph that bears witness to the artistic collaboration between the photographer and the singer-poet. 27.5 x 27.5 x 1.5 cm Good condition. Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer renowned for his stylised black-and-white portraits, his photographs of flowers, and his male nudes. Patricia Lee Smith, known as Patti Smith, is an American punk rock singer and guitarist; she is also a poet, writer, painter and photographer. Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith shared a passionate friendship and an artistic collaboration that left its mark on the New York scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Their meeting gave rise to a series of images that redefined the conventions of art photography.