Patti smith robert mapplethorpe

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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.

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe in 1977.

Revisting the refined aesthetics and startling content of the late Robert Mapplethorpe.

Robert Mapplethorpe

zombiesenelghetto: “ “Contact sheet from shoot with Patti Smith and Robert Robert Mapplethorpe”, by Norman Seeff, 1969 ”

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Patti Smith y Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self portrait, 1970s Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith (Neckbrace), New York, 1977 “Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.” “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.” “I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.” “I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.” “I open doors, I close doors,” he wrote.'' ^ Eugène Delacroix, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1826 Judy Linn, Patti Smith, Chelsea Hotel, 1970 ^ “There were days, rainy gray…