Robert Mapplethorpe (1981), Frankfurter Kunstverein

• Published: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 1981
• Contributors: Edited by Peter Weiermair
• Edition: First edition
• Binding: White photo-illustrated wrappers
• Pages: [5] pp. text + 59 full-page plates
• Dimensions: Quarto
• Language: German / English
• Signature: Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For MC '79 '82" and signed.
• Condition: Very good; bright, sharp corners. In a removable archival jacket.

The catalogue of Mapplethorpe's exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, 10 April to 17 May 1981, edited by Peter Weiermair. Weiermair, an Austrian curator, later wrote The Hidden Image (1988), a history of the photographed male nude, and edited a monograph on Arthur Tress.

Fifty-nine full-page plates make it a substantial early survey, published two years before Mapplethorpe's first trade monograph and at the moment European institutions began to show him. It gives a clear view of the work as it stood at the start of the 1980s, before the fame and the controversies that followed.