Mapplethorpe Portraits. Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe 1975-87

4to. Black laminated wrappers. Published for the exhibition held from 25 March to 19 June at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Ca 13 pages of text and 71 b/w plates. With a list of exhibitions and a bibliography at rear. *** Robert Mapplethorpe’s work received its first major exposure in Britain at the Institute of Contemporary Arts three and a half years ago. The impact on visitors to the exhibition was inevitably tempered by the wide range of subject material and the shock to our sensibilities of the homo-erotic photographs