Mapplethorpe: Assault With a Deadly Camera (A Pop Culutre Memoir, Am Outlaw Reminiscence)

Fritscher, Jack

ISBN 10: 0803893620 / ISBN 13: 9780803893627

Published by Hastings House Pub, Mamaroneck, NY, 1994

About this Item

Octavo. 316 pages, indexed. Hardcover in a white dust jacket with red lettering. There is light wear to the dust jacket. Edges lightly bumped. The text is clean and sound. Illustrated with photographs.

Seller Inventory # 052372

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapplethorpe: Assault With a Deadly Camera (A Pop Culutre Memoir, Am Outlaw Reminiscence)
• Publisher: Hastings House Pub, Mamaroneck, NY
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803893620
• ISBN 13: 9780803893627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Photography
  • Art

About this title

Synopsis

Written by his ex-lover, business associate, and close friend, an explicit memoir offers a new perspective on the renowned celebrity photographer with a taste for kinky sex and drugs who died of AIDS in 1989. 50,000 first printing. Tour. IP.

About the Author

JACK FRITSCHER'S 400 published short stories and feature articles have appeared in more than 25 magazines and in several anthologies of "Best-of-the-Year" stories. Of his 5 books of fiction, his best-selling novel, SOME DANCE TO REMEMBER, has been named by "THE NEW REPUBLIC" as a classic comparable to novels by Gore Vidal and James Baldwin, and yet is popular enough that a multiplicity of critics have called it "the gay GONE WITH THE WIND." His newest collection of fiction is RAINBOW COUNTY AND OTHER STORIES; his new novel for 1998 is the romantic comedy THE GEOGRAPHY OF WOMEN; his short-fiction collection for 1998 is CORPORAL IN CHARGE OF TAKING CARE OF CAPTAIN O'MALLEY AND OTHER STORIES. He is also the author of 4 nonfiction books, including this rather personally involved MAPPLETHORPE: ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY CAMERA; LOVE AND DEATH IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, his doctoral dissertation; the Anton LaVey centered POPULAR WITCHCRAFT; and the media-savvy TELEVISION TODAY. He is a founding member of the American Popular Culture Association, and has taught creative writing, journalism, and film for more than fifteen years at university. He is the recipient of both a Michigan Grant to the Arts and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Robert Mapplethorpe himself received no government grants personally, despite the perception in the U.S. Congress in the NEA debacle.) Fritscher's coffee-table photography book, published in England and titled JACK FRITSCHER'S AMERICAN MEN, is a completely progressive kind of photo art, because his pictures (each one a titled short story) are of actual American males shot over a period of thirty years. There is no similarity to or influence from Mapplethorpe. Robert shot models in the controlled, formal environment of a studio. Fritscher shoots actual people from the hip, on the run, extemporaneously. He is deeply established artist who is writer, photographer, and video director whose existentially erotic work reflects sexuality, intellect, and real life lived in American popular culture.