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American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was an artist with a profound knowledge of art history, a sophisticated connoisseur who constantly sought to dialogue with the past to enable him to create innovative and contemporary images. His vision was influenced by classicism, an artistic canon that Mapplethorpe not only studied but also copied, renewed, and interpreted, translating into the medium of photography the principles of harmony, proportion, and formal perfection that characterize classical sculpture.
This volume establishes a direct dialogue between Mapplethorpe's most famous photographs of the perfect and eternal forms of ancient sculpture and images whose subjects are the ephemeral and sensual male and female models who evoke the poses or angles of the former, establishing a visual comparison between sculptural and photographic representation of the human body.
It is in this perspective that
