I grandi fotografi (Corriere della Sera)

Vittorio Storaro
Arti Grafiche Marchesi

Robert Mapplethorpe, Herbert Muschamp
teNeues France

Flower are one of the most common subjects for artwork, yet Mapplethorpe excels at bringing something radically new to his flower photographs. Setting them in a universe apart, their poses are classical, reduced to a series of essential forms. Their compositions are profoundly simple but mask a complex dynamic. Each one is evocative, and almost always sexually charged. When photographed by Mapplethorpe, these delicate organisms become almost muscular in their raw power. AUTHOR: Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 and was raised in Long Island, New York. He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. By the early 1980s, he challenged the definition of photography with new techniques and formats. Mapplethorpe continued to create powerful images until his death from AIDS in 1989. 53 colour & 227 duotone photos

Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Coleman Danto
TeNeues

This major, long out-of-print survey, widely regarded as the definitive overview of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white photography, is once again available in a new, updated edition. It presents a comprehensive selection of Mapplethorpe's nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes and other works, including his best known and most controversial images. Mapplethorpe's choices were both innovative and bold, and his work has continued to resonate since his early death in 1989. His cutting-edge use of homoerotic and other challenging themes has become embedded in our culture, with pervasive echoes not only in the work of other artists but in mainstream advertising as well.

Gino Oliva
Fantoni & C.

Mario Cresci
Edizioni Meta

Mel Rosenthal
Curbstone Press

Residents of New York City's South Bronx neighborhood live amidst what is frequently described as the most severe and widespread poverty in any U.S. metropolitan area. In the South Bronx of America is a work which, through documentary photographs, counterpointed with statements by residents and by newspaper reports and statistical information, offers both an intimate view of life in this neighborhood and a context for understanding the last two decades of accelerated social decay. In the words of Penny Coleman, New York Times photographer, In the South Bronx of America, "is important because it is not cynical, because it is a sincere attempt to provide the awareness necessary for change."

Masafumi Sanai
Heibonsha

Dora Maar
Skira editore

Per troppo tempo Henriette Theodora Markovitch, meglio nota come Dora Maar (Parigi 1907-1997), è stata relegata nell'immaginario e nel ricordo dei posteri al ruolo di amante e musa, tragicamente abbandonata, del grande Picasso. Dora Maar, che trascorse gli ultimi cinquant'anni della sua vita lontano da tutti, trovando nella psicanalisi e nella religione la forza di superare il dramma, fu in realtà una donna acuta, intelligente, politicamente e socialmente impegnata, amica di Georges Bataille, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Fu soprattutto una straordinaria artista, una sensibile e pungente fotografa già affermata quando conobbe il pittore spagnolo e partecipe al Surrealismo. All'artista Dora Maar e alla sua personale cifra nella fotografia della Parigi degli anni trenta, è dedicato questo volume, a corredo dell'importante rassegna veneziana, che presenta suddiviso in sette sezioni (Ritratti dell'artista; Fotografie di strada; Il viaggio in Spagna; Lo sguardo surrealista; Gli amici; Moda, pubblicità, nudi; Picasso) - un corpus di lavori di altissimo livello e alcuni inediti che consentono di ripercorre la carriera e la vita di Dora. Le sue fotografie "di strada", così attente e sinceramente partecipi della disperazione dei diseredati, i fotocollage, i ritratti, le sperimentazioni nei lavori artistici come in quelli commerciali, l'ironia surrealista che connota molti suoi scatti ci fanno scoprire il grande talento di un'enigmatica e visionaria artista.

Marco Delogu
Punctum

Marina Guerra
Agenzia editoriale Essegi

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MAST.Electa

Luigi Belloni
Ciba-Geigy Edizioni