DESIRE: Photographs 1968–1969 © Lloyd Ziff
“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one,” Patti Smith writes in Just Kids, revealing the burning desire that drove her destiny. Along the way she met Robert Mapplethorpe and together they would meld a magical world of art and music born of passion, dreams, and youthful ideals.
.
As fate would have it, Lloyd Ziff crossed their path – quite literally. In 1968, Ziff was working as a graphic designer at CBS Records, creating album covers for Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin – but he harboured a personal passion for photography, which he took up in his last semester at Pratt.
.
“Robert and I were friends from school,” Ziff tells Another Man. “One day I saw him and Patti walking across the street and thought it would be fun to shoot some portraits of them. They had a tiny apartment on Hall Street across from Pratt. I went over one afternoon and only shot one roll of film.”
.
Read the Full Story at AnOther Man