the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.) In Smith, Pearlman saw a rock star in the making, but it took four more years for Smith to warm to the idea. Finally, in 1975, her first LP, Horses ...

Patti Smith posing on the cover of Horses in a photo taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. (Photo: Flikr Creative Commons) The historical importance of Horses is inarguable. I kid, of course. (Though not ...

Robert Mapplethorpe’s photo of Patti Smith on the sleeve of Horses is considered one of music’s best. But the story of their friendship between the two is more beautiful, writes Stephen Dowling.

I read an interview with him where he said what he took away from “Horses” was this sense of gender fluidity from the album’s lyrics and certainly Robert Mapplethorpe’s photo of you for ...

Mapplethorpe took the iconic cover photograph for Smith's first album, Horses, which came out in 1975. "The only rule we had was, Robert told me if I wore a white shirt, not to wear a dirty one ...

Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was at the forefront of New ... Smith portrait that appears on the cover to her 1975 record Horses. Up until his AIDS-related death at age 42 in 1989 ...

You’ve likely seen the cover of Patti Smith’s Horses which features a portrait ... who later became a close friend – Robert Mapplethorpe “took areas of dark human consent and made ...

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were both born in 1946, at a time when “the iceman” and “the last of the horse-drawn wagons” could still be seen on city streets. Ms. Smith points this ...