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Subject: [Leica] Portraits of awkward adolescents posing ...
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:55:30 -0400
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I saw the Mapplethorpe exhibit (say, I do go to quite a bit of exhibits,
eve out here in the desert-land California :-) ) and his work with Patti
Smith looks so innocent. They were definitely "just kids." Wonder what
would have happened if the draw of fame didn't work its ways...

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> ==On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:41 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com>
> wrote:
>
> > For anyone who's interested, the Patti Smith memoir of the 70s in New
> York and her life with Robert Maplethorp, "Just Kids," is fascinating in
> terms of this subject, and many others. It's quite touching, and is very
> revealing about Maplethorp's compulsion to become 'famous,' and how he set
> about doing it.
>
>
> Yes indeed.
>
> --Bob
>
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