January 20, 2019

MAPPLETHORPE/FLOWERS


he came, in time,
to embrace the flower as the embodiment of all the contradictions reveling within
Patti Smith
the color, intensity, drama, boldness and beauty o Mapplethorpe´s photographs reveal the late photographer´s amazing talent for casting aside all but the essential, peeling off the layers of the extraneous until the naked, raw power of each subject is revealed
Indianapolis Star