{"product_id":"robert-mapplethorpe-certain-people-a-book-of-portraits-1985","title":"Robert Mapplethorpe — Certain People: A Book of Portraits (1985)","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, 1985\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Essay by Susan Sontag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLimitation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Limited to 5,000 casebound copies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cloth, pictorial dust jacket\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 0-942642-14-7\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed by Mapplethorpe on the half-title and inscribed \"For Nicholas\".\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good in a very good dust jacket; minor jacket wear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eMapplethorpe's portrait book: artists, writers, musicians, socialites and friends from New York in the late 1970s and early 80s, photographed with the same formal severity he brought to flowers and nudes. Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press in Pasadena printed it in 1985, to the standard of its books on George Platt Lynes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe introduction is by Susan Sontag, who had sat for him, and was later collected in her essays as \"Certain Mapplethorpes\". Seen together, the portraits are an index of a social world, downtown and uptown at once, recorded in the years when AIDS began to empty it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigned by Mapplethorpe and inscribed \"For Nicholas\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Mapplethorpe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894710468925,"sku":"DI-003","price":1450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed_766b3570-0cb2-46a2-873f-6fdd28961e6e.jpg?v=1793689124","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/robert-mapplethorpe-certain-people-a-book-of-portraits-1985","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}