{"product_id":"patti-smith-american-artist-9781933784069","title":"Patti Smith: American Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank 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 looktall  thin  with porcelain skin  sharp features  and those piercing eyes. With me  in terms of portraits  its 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 rocks poet laureate\" because of her feminist sensibilities and intellectual approach to her music. As a result  she is one of rock and rolls most influential female musicians  and according to Rolling Stone  one of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Among some of Patti Smiths 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 Billboards Top 100 in 1978 with the single Because The Night  co-written with her friend Bruce Springsteen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931875278901,"sku":"ByrdShop_1933784067","price":101.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781933784069.jpg?v=1794218272","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/patti-smith-american-artist-9781933784069","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}