Lady Lisa Lyon / Robert Mapplethorpe

MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT. Lady: Lisa Lyon, quarto, first edition, Viking, 1983, pp. 128, black cloth boards, blind-stamped, duotone photos of Lisa Lyon, the bodybuilder and model, with text by Bruce Chatwin.

“Erotic work of women, like bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, straddles the line between formal beauty and sexual objectification,” says Robert Hirsch in his discussion of Mapplethorpe in “Seizing the Light.”