Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera

Written by his ex-lover, this provocative new memoir offers an affectionate, unfiltered view of highly controversial gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died from AIDS in 1989. Featuring 32 pages of photographs by and of Mapplethorpe, this intimate portrait is raw and explicit, tender and nostalgic, fascinating and illuminating.

• Author
• Jack Fritscher

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 350

• Publisher
• Hastings House Book Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780803893627

• Genres
• biography, gay, photography, lgbt, art

• Release date
• 1994