Stephen Bayley

‘A good boy trying to be bad’

The enfant terrible of Seventies New York even turned market-bought flowers into highly-charged photographic images

  • Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs

    Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen

    Getty Publications, pp. 330

  • Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive

    Frances Terpak and Michelle Brunnick

    Getty Research Institute, pp. 240

  • Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers

    Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas

    Phaidon, pp. 368

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