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(MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT) (LYON, LISA). Mapplethorpe, Robert, Lisa Lyon & Bruce Chatwin. Foreword by Sam Wagstaff. London: Blond & Briggs, 1983. First British Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good.. 128pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Michael Shroyer. "Lady (Lisa Lyon)" is brassy and playful, strong and seductive, discreet and thoroughly uninhibited. Lady is a host of contradictions, and Robert Mapplethorpe's provocative portrait of Lisa Lyon, dynamic personality and first Women's Bodybuilding Champion, entices you to re-examine your ideas and ideals of "female". In these haunting photographs - made over a period of two years - Lyon embodies her concept of Woman of the Eighties, neither masculine nor feminine, but feline. Writer Bruce Chatwin introduces Lyon and Mapplethorpe in a style characteristically witty and adroit, and photography connoisseur Sam Wagstaff adds his own valuable observations of the duo and their joint accomplishment." A handsome example of the 1983 first British paperbound edition of this iconic work additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED "for Laura Huxley - / with hope, admiration / and love. / X Lisa Lyon / Malibu 1988" to the noted widow of Aldous Huxley in thick gold marker across the entire half title page showing a bit of light age-toning to the extremities of the covers along with a flattened mild diagonal soft crease at the upper foredge corner. 0-85634-145-2 Inventory Number: 026145