By Lloyd Ziff
Located in New York, NY
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Lloyd Ziff
Robert Mapplethorpe and Pattie Smith. Brooklyn, 1968
14 x 11 inch gelatin silver print
Edition of 10
Signed on and editioned on the front.
Artist Biography -
Lloyd Ziff is best known as the award-winning art director of several national magazines, including Vanity Fair, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveler, and Rolling Stone. However, throughout his life photography has been his great passion.
From the early 1960s onwards Ziff was rarely without a camera and among the many subjects he photographed were the young Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith. As Ziff recalls:
“My last semester at Pratt Institute I happened to take a photography course although my major was graphic design. The magic of the dark room seduced me and I soon was shooting black and white photographs of Brooklyn, New York City, and of my friends. Robert and I were both in the class of 1967, and although we weren’t particularly close, I believe we recognized in each other something we probably couldn’t put into words at the time.
In 1968 Robert was living with Patti in a little apartment near mine in Clinton Hill...
Category
1960s Lloyd Ziff Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, Silver Gelatin