LADY LISA LYON
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LADY LISA LYON
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Lady Lisa Lyon is one of the most iconic photobooks by Robert Mapplethorpe, featuring a powerful collaboration with bodybuilder Lisa Lyon.
Published with text by Bruce Chatwin, the book presents a striking exploration of the human body, identity, and classical form through Mapplethorpe’s highly controlled and sculptural photographic language.
The photographs depict Lyon in a series of carefully staged poses that draw from classical sculpture, religious iconography, and fashion aesthetics. Through lighting, composition, and symmetry, Mapplethorpe transforms the body into an object of formal precision and symbolic power.
The work challenges traditional representations of gender and strength, presenting a subject that is simultaneously athletic, elegant, and monumental.
Widely regarded as a landmark in photographic publishing, Lady Lisa Lyon stands as a defining example of Mapplethorpe’s exploration of beauty, form, and visual discipline.
Text by: Bruce Chatwin
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Year: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Language: German / English
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Condition: Very good / very good condition. Dust jacket shows light wear; interior clean and well preserved.
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Intermission exists in the space between documentation and devotion an ongoing archive of cultural fragments that refuse to vanish. Each title within our portfolio is selected not for trend, but for tension: between what was meant to disappear and what insists on remaining.
We work with objects that speak quietly but persistently publications, recordings, and editions that define the undercurrents of art, sound, and design. Together they form a living record of marginal brilliance, a collection that privileges significance over scale.
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We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.
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Every Intermission title is handled as an artifact. We believe that preservation is an act of reverence one that begins the moment you open a cover or unspool a tape.
To experience a piece, do so slowly. Allow the air to touch the paper, let light fall softly over each page. Avoid excess pressure; handle edges rather than surfaces. Each mark, fold, or patina is part of its passage through time evidence of care rather than decay.
We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.
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