first edition Hardcover
1986 · London
by Fabre, Jan; Robert Mapplethorpe (Photographs)
London: ICA, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original laminated pictorial boards. "Operating in the vortex between false and true existence, the one indistinguishable from the other, Mapplethorpe and Fabre metamorphose their subject matter, photographed or staged, so that the body is 'compromised' in a sublimation of itself, superheated and transmuted into a vehicle for the fever of pleasure and the joy of being." Profusely illustrated with full-page b/w reproductions of photographs by Mapplethorpe and full-page duo-tone drawings by Jan Fabre. Limited first edition of 3000 copies. Minor edge wear on binding with boards slightly rubbed. Binding in overall very good, interior in near fine condition.
(Inventory #: 23850)