{"product_id":"robert-mapplethorpe-black-book-1986-inscribed-to-ken-moody","title":"Robert Mapplethorpe — Black Book (1986), inscribed to Ken Moody","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Introductory poem by Ntozake Shange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition, first printing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Black cloth, unclipped photographic dust jacket ($40.00)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96 pp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e approx. 28.5 x 28 cm (11.25 x 11 in)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0-312-08302-5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Ken Moody, \"one of my favorite models\", signed and dated '87.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Near fine in a near fine jacket; mild shelfwear to bottom edge, one small closed tear to jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Book gathers Mapplethorpe's studio portraits and nudes of Black men, introduced by a poem by Ntozake Shange. It grew out of a smaller book, Black Males, published in Amsterdam in 1980 with an introduction by Edmund White, and became the most contested work of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arguments it provoked are part of its meaning. The critic Kobena Mercer first read the photographs as racial fetishism, then returned to them in a later essay to argue that they also unsettle the white gaze they seem to serve. The book remains at the centre of unresolved debates about desire, race and representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy is inscribed by Mapplethorpe to Ken Moody, a physical trainer and the model he photographed most often between 1983 and 1985, as \"one of my favorite models\". It joins the photographer and one of the people the book depicts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Mapplethorpe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894710272317,"sku":"DI-002","price":7150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed_b0b7905b-7a57-40e3-94ee-b4dc3ce479b4.jpg?v=1793689123","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/robert-mapplethorpe-black-book-1986-inscribed-to-ken-moody","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}