Patti Smith

Artist Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946 - 1989)

Dateca. 1972

MediumPolaroid print

DimensionsOverall: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (11.43 x 8.89 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.2784

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Photography

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DescriptionUnique polaroid print of a woman (Patti Smith).Exhibition History

Exhibition History

In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 8 - June 15, 2008, no cat.

Gallery Label

The American singer and song writer Patti Smith (b. 1946) was a central figure in the punk rock movement of the 1970s. Smith befriended the young photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1967 and lived with him as a roommate for several years. Over the next decade, Mapplethorpe made hundreds of photographs of her. Through Mapplethorpe's lens, Smith appears as powerful, vulnerable, and aloof: a figure of raw and protean vitality.

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