{"id":1500,"date":"2024-10-18T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2024-10-18T15:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T15:11:48","slug":"1500-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith Unveil the Untold Secrets Behind \u2018Before Easter After\u2019 \u2013 What Really Happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Patti Smith loves a motif. Admittedly, she loves music and her longtime friend and photographer Lynn Goldsmith more, but she loves a motif nevertheless. On Oct. 7 at Oakland\u2019s Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, the two women sit down to peel back the pages of their collaborative coffee table book, \u201cBefore After Easter,\u201d a composite of motifs.<\/p>\n

After a brief introduction, Patti steps out from behind the curtain in her typical androgynous style \u2013\u2013\u00a0loose black blazer over a black vest and a pendant hanging around her neck. Lynn struts out behind her, wearing a slouchy gray frock over a tight long sleeve and rugged brown boots. They\u2019re versions of each other after a 50-year friendship \u2013\u2013 it’s as if they went rummaging in each other\u2019s closets like sisters. As we come to find out over the next hour and a half, they basically are. If not apparent in their near-identical surnames, then clear in the biting back and forths, like when Patti tells Lynn, \u201cI like your boots\u201d and Lynn looks at the audience as if we\u2019re in a sitcom \u2013\u2013 \u201cI\u2019ve been wearing them for 10 years!\u201d\u00a0Who are these divas?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite their apparent sisterly bond, Patti concedes, \u201cI don\u2019t remember when we met at all.\u201d It doesn\u2019t really matter when you met when you have 50 years of friendship to keep track of. What they do remember: their close relationship as photographer and muse. \u201cI don\u2019t really direct Patti, Patti just is,\u201d Lynn says.<\/p>\n

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The photo projected behind them, grabbed from a page in the book, is playful and wild. At first, I get the sense their photoshoots are childlike in nature \u2013\u2013\u00a0two girls bored at a sleepover and having fun with an old camera. But it\u2019s a little more serious than that, as Patti makes clear when she says, \u201cI come to Lynn with the mindset of having a job to do and immediately connect with her. It\u2019s not like posing, it\u2019s entering into life at the moment; if Lynn created a moment I would enter it like a character in a scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

So not quite preteens at a sleepover, but just as intimate, though Patti\u2019s younger spirit is still present in Lynn\u2019s photos. \u201cWhen I was young, I liked being photographed,\u201d she says, \u201cI had a very strong sense of self.\u201d If her commanding the room from her seat on stage doesn\u2019t say this loud enough, then maybe the instantly recognizable \u201cPatti\u201d motifs in the pages of \u201cBefore Easter After\u201d do.<\/p>\n

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In between the poems and lyrics and photos is a less obvious but just as classic motif of Patti\u2019s: Her keen eye for well-loved second-hand clothes. A photo of Patti with a tight leather jacket, ever so seductively zipped open to reveal her bare chest, flashes on the projector. She bought it at a thrift store in Camden, New Jersey, and despite its cheap price tag, it couldn\u2019t be more chic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never had to style Patti,\u201d Lynn says, gesturing to a close-up photo of Patti with a Moroccan scarf draped oh-so-casually over her head, \u201cShe could take a scarf and do\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0with it.\u201d The screen flashes a photo of Patti in an emerald-green raincoat, which she says she scored for $5. She gazes up at the photo, with a slight smirk, \u201cI seduced Tom Verlaine in this raincoat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another motif of Patti\u2019s: Her untamed hair. The cover photo of \u201cBefore Easter After\u201d tells all \u2013\u2013 a close-up so close it\u2019s not even a body, just Patti\u2019s eyes, mouth and wild, wind-swept hair. In the book, it\u2019s placed next to a poem written by Sam Shepard, Patti\u2019s late lover and longtime friend \u2013\u2013 the first line gives her wings as a \u201ccrowchild.\u201d Her jet-black hair \u2013\u2013\u00a0spiky and defiant \u2013\u2013\u00a0adds to the comparison.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most \u201cPatti\u201d motif of them all? Her soulful music, which she offers to us in between conversations. Patti closes the night with a rendition of \u201cPeople Have the Power\u201d and a big grin on her face. Come to think of it, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen a single smile in the photos on screen, despite the way she\u2019s grinning on stage. Smiling is not really on-brand for Patti, so everyone feels lucky to have shared one with her for the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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