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Arthur Rimbaud was eighteen years old when he wrote A Season in Hell (Un saison en enfer) in 1873. Mapplethorpe was forty years old when he accepted the commission to make photographs in response t…

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), A Season in Hell (New York: Limited Edition’s Club, 1986). Edition: 1000. Graphic Arts Collection GAX 2014- in process Arthur Rimbaud was eighteen years old when he wrote A Season in Hell (Un saison en enfer) in 1873. Mapplethorpe was forty years old when he accepted the commission to make photographs in response to the prose poem. It was also the year that Mapplethorpe learned he was H.I.V. positive, which led to his death in 1989. Seven of Mapplethorpe’s Hasselblad negatives were selected for this project and printed on ha

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