ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE - SOME WOMEN
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Photographs: Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher: Secker and Warburg
Year: 1989
Edition: First UK Edition, First Impression
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Language: English
Condition: Near Fine — dust jacket shows very minor wear and light toning, protected in a removable archival sleeve; slight toning to page edges; binding firm.
Some Women (1989) is one of Robert Mapplethorpe’s most refined and focused bodies of work, devoted entirely to the female portrait and the formal possibilities of the human figure.
Departing from the more provocative dimensions of his practice, the publication presents a series of portraits defined by precision, restraint, and sculptural composition. Mapplethorpe approaches each subject through a controlled vocabulary of symmetry, light, surface, and structure, placing the body within a visual framework informed by classical sculpture and studio portraiture.
The photographs balance intimacy with distance. Rather than relying on narrative or environmental context, Mapplethorpe isolates his subjects against carefully controlled spaces, allowing gesture, posture, expression, and physical presence to become the primary elements of the image. The resulting portraits possess an almost architectural clarity.
Clean lines, disciplined lighting, and an insistence on formal perfection characterize the series. Yet beneath this precision remains a quiet psychological tension: each sitter appears both completely exposed and deliberately composed, occupying the space between individual portrait and idealized form.
Published toward the end of Mapplethorpe’s career, Some Women represents a particularly distilled expression of his photographic language. Its large-scale presentation emphasizes the physicality of the prints and the meticulous control underlying each composition.
A significant and highly collectible Mapplethorpe title, and an important document of late-20th-century photographic portraiture, the volume demonstrates the photographer’s enduring pursuit of beauty, structure, and formal perfection.
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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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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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