Before she was a world-renowned singer/songwriter and bestowed with the title "T
he Godmother of Punk," Patti Smith was a struggling poet posing for the lens of
photographer Judy Linn. In intimate portraits of an artist as a young woman, Lin
n captures Smith at her most vulnerable, as a raw performer on the verge of beco
ming an iconic artist. Linn's photographs offer a fascinating document of Smith'
s maturation into one of the most influential women of her generation while also
spotlighting her close relationships with other artists including Robert Mapple
thorpe and Sam Shepard.
The book captures a moment lost in time, when a poet
experimenting with music crossed paths with a young artist experimenting with ph
otography. A must-have for anyone interested in the evolution of an artist, this
collection showcases the collaboration bewteen Smith and Linn and rewrites what
it means to be a woman and an artist.
