Patti Smith: Simply a Concert

Fabio Torre, Fernanda Pivano, John Rockwell, Claudio Marra,

ISBN 10: 8862080999 / ISBN 13: 9788862080996

Edité par Damiani October 2009, 2009

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Rock legend Patti Smith is famed for her powerful onstage presence, depicted by many of photography's own legends. Robert Mapplethorpe's portraits of the young poet/singer were instrumental in defining her groundbreaking persona in 1970s. Still tough and uncompromising, Smith has more recently been captured by Annie Leibovitz. Joining that lineage is this volume of portraits by Italian photographer and painter Fabio Torre, featuring 70 black-and-white images taken of Smith during her concerts from the 1990s to the present. Torre has captured Smith passionately immersed in performance, and she is revealed to us here more intimately than we have seen her before. Different than the Patti Smith we remember from previous portraits, in these dynamic chiaroscuro images Torre projects a new Patti persona, capturing the lifetime of experience revealed by her gestures. Foreword by Fernanda Pivano. Text by Claudio Marra, John Rockwell.

N° de réf. du vendeur 20101015110208

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Patti Smith: Simply a Concert
• Éditeur: Damiani October 2009
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 8862080999
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9788862080996
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Used - Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Photography - Collections - Music

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I keep a portrait of her, made by Mapplethorpe in the early 70's, hanging on the wall next to my bed. I'm tempted to say that everything was already, there in this little Polaroid, that it would be impossible to add anything. But Patti Smith is like the wind, she blows life and energy on you. Hearing her, seeing her and - why not? - photographing her. She is cheerfulness, pain, affection, desperation, maybe happiness...