Robert Mapplethorpe inspired

[BT Bob]

Re: Robert Mapplethorpe inspired

I have 2 books by Mapplethorpe:

Pistils (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pistils-Robe...4227241&sr=1-1) contains some of the most beautiful images of flowers you will see.

Altars (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Altars-Rober...4227338&sr=1-2) contains some incredible portraiture. It does, however, also contain some pretty challenging homo-erotic images, so take care if you're easily offended.

For me, Mapplethorpe is one of the few photographers who were genuinely ground-breaking. There's a lot of his work I don't "like", and much of it doesn't make for easy viewing, but it's hard to ignore his place in the story of photography.

[gsgary]

Re: Robert Mapplethorpe inspired

I don't have any of his books, most of mine are by Magnum photographers and Don McCullin, Elliot Erwitt, but i'm getting some Waterstone vouchers for Christmas and fancy some of Sabastio Salgado's work

[BT Bob]

Re: Robert Mapplethorpe inspired

I love Erwitt's work - so witty. For my money, he's up there with Robert Doisneau.

McCullin should be a national treasure (if you like his war work, check out Phili Jone Griffiths, if you haven't already). It's also interesting to see DM's more recent landscape work, especially in Somerset - so calm & tranquil. The complete opposite to all this other work.

I don't know much about Salgado, apart from his "famous" images but, again, some challenging work.

[gsgary]

Re: Robert Mapplethorpe inspired

I love Erwitt's work - so witty. For my money, he's up there with Robert Doisneau.

McCullin should be a national treasure (if you like his war work, check out Phili Jone Griffiths, if you haven't already). It's also interesting to see DM's more recent landscape work, especially in Somerset - so calm & tranquil. The complete opposite to all this other work.

I don't know much about Salgado, apart from his "famous" images but, again, some challenging work.

Had Vietnan Inc for quite a few years now but i want Larry Burrows vietnam book

[BT Bob]

Re: Robert Mapplethorpe inspired

i want Larry Burrows vietnam book

Wasn't the photographer in Apocalypse Now allegedly based on Burrows?

PJG had a retrospective exhibition a few years ago at the National Museum & Galleries of Wales in Cardiff, called Dark Odyssey. An amazing experience to see those image "for real" as it were.

I have a signed copy of the catalogue - worth tracking a copy down.

[gsgary]

Re: Robert Mapplethorpe inspired

Ended up getting another Don McCullin book Shaped By War and a book on David Bailey