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Patti Smith: American Artist (Hardcover)

~ Frank Stefanko (Photographer), Chris Murray (Preface), Patti Smith (Introduction), Lenny Kaye (Foreword)
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“Frank always shot your internal life. He let your external imperfections show. His photos had a purity and poetry; there was some humor…” - Bruce Springsteen
Patti Smith was a favorite photographic subject for Frank Stefanko during his college years. “Patti had jet-black hair and pale blue eyes that could see right through you. When I visited New York, I started photographing Patti, I was captivated by her look…tall, thin, with porcelain skin, sharp features, and those piercing eyes. With me, in terms of portraits, it’s always the eyes first, then the rest of the face comes into view.”
Patti Smith came to prominence during the punk rock movement in the 1970s, with her highly regarded 1975 debut album, Horses. She has been called "punk rock's poet laureate" because of her feminist sensibilities and intellectual approach to her music. As a result, she is one of rock and roll's most influential female musicians, and according to Rolling Stone, one of ”The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.” Among some of Patti Smith’s early influences were Robert Mapplethorpe, Jim Carroll and Tom Verlaine. She spent the early 1970s painting, writing, and performing spoken-word poetry- frequently at the St. Marks Poetry Project. By 1974, she was performing as a musician, initially with guitarist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye. The Patti Smith Group produced four albums in the 1970s, reaching #13 on Billboard’s Top 100 in 1978 with the single “Because The Night,” co-written with her friend Bruce Springsteen.


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* Visionary architect Travis Price's survey of great architectural works from modern and ancient times, with more than 160 gorgeous full-color photographs. * A thought-provoking intersection of the worlds of design, architecture, and modern living. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 164 pages
  • Publisher: Insight Editions (October 24, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1933784067
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933784069
  • Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #774,494 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and mesmerizing, October 24, 2006
These photos of Patti Smith have been called some of the most beautiful portraits ever taken of her. The book chronicles the early evolution of the "high priestess of punk" in pictures and story by her friend and photgrapher, Frank Stefanko. As an "American Artist", Patti's story follows an amazingly talented and multifaceted performer who moves from a small town in Jersey to the the Big Apple, where she hones her talents and finds her voice. She has become an icon for other female artists to emulate.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Get out of the box!, March 17, 2007
Travis Price invites us to get out of our safety and boring molds and explore/enjoy/rejoyce in the various creative and living forms that nature offers. In reading Price's book I am reminded that a home is a temple where one can retreat in peace.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting text, but projects don't live up to the hype., May 7, 2009
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I found Price's writings pretty interesting and he had some poignant critiques of the void of meaning in mass produced architecture today. But... most of his architectural projects were disappointingly bland. A few were interesting, but I found most of them to be generic modern structures that looked slightly post-modern. I felt a lot of the pictures in the book were just eye candy and seemed more as if they were glorifying the mass suburban sprawl that he was criticizing.
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3.0 out of 5 stars I expected more on the life of Patti Smith
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