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2) Just Kids
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney
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2010
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278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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In this tough, tender memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplthorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
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"A memoir of mothers and daughters -- and mothers as daughters -- traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers -- French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly -- exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed...
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[2021]
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viii, 225 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Growing Up Bank Street is a uniquely Greenwich Village coming-of age-story, set on a legendary street whose irrepressible residents have helped shaped the story of America since Colonial times. A sparkling memoir of beatniks, rock stars, artists, AIDS activists, and free-thinkers, in an eccentric neighborhood that wrote its own rules on the power of community"--
6) Jay myself
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Documents the monumental move of renowned photographer and artist, Jay Maisel, who, in February 2015 after forty-eight years, sold his home, the 36,000 square-foot, 100-year-old landmark building in Manhattan known simply as "The Bank." Through the intimate lens of noted artist and photographer Stephen Wilkes, the viewer is taken on a remarkable journey through Maisel's life as an artist, mentor, and man; a man grappling with time, life, change, and...
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