Patti Smith
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Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, and author. Her 1975 debut album, Horses, made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock
Smith at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, 2024
Smith, photographed by Eric Bachmann, during an interview in October 1976
On October 15, 2006, Smith performed a 3½-hour tour de force show to close out CBGB, the famed New York City live music venue.
Smith performing at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, in June 2007
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes,
Patti Smith
…the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In November 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids, written to fulfill a promise she made to Robert Mapplethorpe, her longtime partner and friend. She is ranked 47th on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of all Time, published in 2010, and was awarded…
Self-Portrait, 1980
Mapplethorpe's former romantic partner and lifelong friend Patti Smith
Mapplethorpe's studio at 24 Bond Street in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, which he later used as a darkroom.