Patti smith robert mapplethorpe

A new limited-edition book by photographer Lloyd Ziff documents the first ever shoot Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe did together, back when they were young lovers and aspiring artists navigating the heady days of Sixties New York.

They were New York before New York knew what to do with them. They were lovers, best friends, fellow survivors. Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe both became art-world legends and ’70s icons of radical downtown bohemia. Now Smith finally opens up about their days together, living at the Chelsea Hotel, buying art supplies before food, mixing with Warhol superstars and future rock gods, and doing whatever they had to do just to stay together.

A new limited-edition book by photographer Lloyd Ziff documents the first ever shoot Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe did together, back when they were young lovers and aspiring artists navigating the heady days of Sixties New York.

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"if you talk about anything too much, you know, if you spend too much time defining what you do or telling people that you're free or being defensive about your freedom, obviously you're not free… liberation… you know there's a lot of movements, whether it's like beatniks, hippies, women's lib, they're all just new political structures, they're all new dogma, they're all just to me… we want to initiate change but as soon as you get it you structure your change, as soon as you start writing…

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Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe by Kate Simon, 1979 http://bit.ly/1mCg5YK

The myth of the starving artist is no myth. When Patti Smith got off the bus in the Port Authority in 1967, all she had were some art supplies and a book of poems. She slept in doorways. She scroun…

A new limited-edition book by photographer Lloyd Ziff documents the first ever shoot Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe did together, back when they were young lovers and aspiring artists navigating the heady days of Sixties New York.