Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato .: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.
: The name Robert Mapplethorpe probably makes most people think of New York's bohemian life in the 1970s, the controversy and his homoerotic BDSM photographs that upset the public.
: The photo book fills a void that the digital display space cannot fill, and therefore becomes even more important for a generation flooded with images.
: People look at the lens, yet it is as if they would rather give way and retreat to the courtyard, to the field, the family, the intoxication, the church, the sleep.
: «I'm not looking for a documentary look – I would rather interfere in the reality of the people I am going to portray. It is in the meeting between me and them, where the boundary between fiction and documentary is unclear, that I can create something honest, "says Hilde Honerud.