From Robert Mapplethorpe to Luigi Ghirri: four books to read this summer
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PATRICIA MORRISROE, MAPPLETHORPE.
A LIFE
While visitors have until 6 January 2026 to visit the exhibition that Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venice is dedicating to the career of Robert Mapplethorpe, the volume published by Marsilio Editori retraces the life of the American artist through the words of Patricia Morrisroe. Mapplethorpe. Una vita [Mapplethorpe. A life] shines a light on the personal and professional life of the photographer, who was first interviewed by the author ‒ then a correspondent for the Sunday Times Magazine ‒ in 1983. That interview was followed by others, all the way until Mapplethorpe’s death in 1989. The biography, achievements, and challenges faced by the book’s protagonist emerge out of the exciting and contradictory atmosphere of New York at that time, guiding readers on a behind-the-scenes discovery of works that have rightfully entered the annals of photography.

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