Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It got the National Book Award for Nonfiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Nonfiction I've heard a lot about it on the Radio. A big interview with Patti Smith herself. I'll be reading it soon. I knew people who knew them. One of my models was one of Mapplethorpe's models and part of that group. That would have been a great time to live in NY. Though from what I've just seen when you'd go clubbing the exciting part was making it back home alive. They had to get real juice up to do that. I'm not so sad that NY is a police state now. You don't have to murder over a dozen people to get sent directly to jail do not pass go do not collect $200. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:51:11 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Portraits of awkward adolescents posing ... > > Just ordered it. Paperback is cheaper than Kindle version. > > Thanks! > > Tina > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:41 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. >> Typed with big fingers on tiny keys >> -- >> > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information