Mapplethorpe, Robert: Lady Lisa Lyon

Lady Lisa Lyon. Text by Bruce Chatwin. 128 p. with numerous black and white photographs. 28,5 x 24 cm. Original white boards with title in black in an illustrated dust jacket (book lightly bumped lower corner). Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 1983.

First German edition. The Open Book. p. 328-329. First German edition. Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe and Bruce Chatwin in ink on the front flypaper. "This book does not simply document Lisa Lyon: it is a work of the imagination - the visual counterpart of a novel, which, like all good novels, mixes fact and fantasy to reveal a greater truth. The photographer and his model have conspired to tell a story of their overlapping obsessions. Their glorification of the body is an act of will, a defiance of nihilism and abstraction, a story of the Modern Movement in reverse" (from the foreword by Chatwin).
– Excellent condition.