COLLABORATION BETWEEN MAPPLETHORPE AND BODYBUILDER LISA LYON
MAPPLETHORPE, Robert and CHATWIN, Bruce. Lady Lisa Lyon. (München): Schirmer-Mosel, (1983). Quarto, original white parchment boards, original photographic dust jacket.
First German edition of this “sculptural” photographic study of the gracefully athletic female form.
“A cult classic, Lady Lisa Lyon is a groundbreaking collaboration between Mapplethorpe and bodybuilder-performance artist Lisa Lyon that is startlingly up-to-date in its questioning of gender, stereotype, and role-playing” (Ingram). “Mapplethorpe threw light on the most animal element in human nature and spiritualized it in its aesthetic reflection through light” (Icons of Photography, 180). Text in German. Open Book, 328-29.
A fine copy.