Mapplethorpe John Chiara The normality of these subjects

The normality of these subjects is deceptive

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Second impression (2010)

Abdul Hamid II utilised photography as a tool for documenting the modernisation of the Ottoman Empire at the start of the 20th Century

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Mapplethorpe John Chiara The normality of these subjectsFirst edition, second printing of Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe. Medium format hardback in fine condition. Some very minor toning to the outer edges of the pages only. About Robert Mapplethorpe began taking photographs in 1970 with a Polaroid camera given to him by a friend. Nearly twenty years later, when Mapplethorpe died at the age of forty two, he was considered one of the most important photographers of his time. His elegant and sometimes