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Robert Mapplethorpe. Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (/ ˈmeɪpəlˌθɔːrp / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) 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, self-portraits, and still-life images.
Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. [1] "I didn't write it to be cathartic," she noted. "I wrote it because Robert asked me to…. Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved.
The Perfect Moment was the most comprehensive retrospective of works by New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The show spanned twenty-five years of his career, featuring celebrity portraits, self-portraits, interracial figure studies, floral still lifes, homoerotic images, and collages. The exhibition, organized by Janet Kardon of the ...
M Train is Smith's second memoir, [1] following the 2010 National Book Award-winning Just Kids. [2] While Just Kids recounts Smith's early life, the beginning of her career and particularly her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, [3] M Train focuses on a later portion of her life, the period since the release of her debut album Horses in 1975. [2]
Patti Smith, the first artist-in-residence at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, will give a special performance at the Downtown Sarasota campus on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. ... “Robert Mapplethorpe and ...
People Have the Power. " People Have the Power " is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith's 1988 album Dream of Life. The cover photograph is by Robert Mapplethorpe. The music video is filmed mostly in black-and-white and features Patti Smith singing, writing and walking.
Gone Again is the sixth studio album by Patti Smith, released June 18, 1996, on Arista Records.The production of the record was preceded by the deaths of many of Smith's close friends and peers, including her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, her brother Todd, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Sohl and Kurt Cobain, with whom Smith had sympathized.
Horses is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith. It was released by Arista Records on November 10, 1975. A fixture of the mid-1970s underground rock music scene in New York City, Smith signed to Arista in April 1975 and recorded Horses with her band at Electric Lady Studios that September.