Re: Re: Frank Stefanko's coffee-table book.

["francesca" <francesca>]

Here are some scans I made from the Stefanko book, if anyone's interested
in the content:

http://i15.tinypic.com/2pqt3x3.jpg
http://i9.tinypic.com/46zsf3s.jpg
http://i7.tinypic.com/33y7679.jpg
http://i15.tinypic.com/2rwx21h.jpg

They are really some beautiful photographs!


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> babel-digest         Monday, November 27 2006         Volume 11 : Number
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> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:52:49 -0000
> From: "pauline brumwell" <pauline>
> Subject: Re: Frank Stefanko's coffee-table book.
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> Hi everyone, this is my first posting, though I've been sitting around on
> the edges for a while, not quite knowing what to write!
> Anyway, this is just to say that I, also, have just read the Stefanko book
> and really enjoyed it. I loved the photos, many of which I'd never seen
> before. I thought they were a really striking record of Patti's progress
> from idealistic and ambitious young art student to slightly troubled rock
> stardom. Pretty sexy too!
> I also thought the personal recollections were really nice. Stefanko and
> Patti obviously like and respect each other and it shows.
> It's the kind of book I half wish I hadn't read so I could put it on my
> Christmas present list and have the pleasure of reading it for the first
> time all over again.
> Cheers
> Pauline
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> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:43 PM
> Subject: Frank Stefanko's coffee-table book.
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>> Just got this book from Amazon:
>>
>>   http://www.amazon.com/Patti-Smith-American-Frank-Stefanko/dp/1933784067
>>
>> ("Patti Smith: American Artist" by Frank Stefanko.)
>>
>> Don't know if it's been discussed. It's pretty good
>> for what it is. Lots of mid-70s b&w pictures of Patti
>> in an apparently short-lived hairstyle (Very straight,
>> and parted on the side), very short-lived style decisions
>> (outfits beside stark black and white; dresses; feather
>> boas; blouses tied halter-style showing midriff) and a
>> very short-lived attitude - softer, more feminine and
>> open - by an old friend of hers from the Philadelphia
>> area.
>>
>> As for the band and performances - not so much of that.
>> Although he does have live shots from the Bijou cafe
>> (formerly at Broad and Lombard in Philadelphia) and
>> Penn's Landing 1977 (mislabled as 1979). (Here's an
>> interesting factoid -- someone was there professionally
>> filming. It was probably only 1 song for a local
>> evening newscast or something, but wouldn't that
>> be nice to have?)
>>
>> And there are a few full-blown portraits of individual
>> band members. Nothing that would win awards in Paris,
>> but nice, flattering photographs, all.
>>
>> The author/photographer seems to have gotten a few cracks
>> at building Patti and the band's visual mystique, but
>> apparently never got there (although his photographs
>> of Bruce Springsteen got to the covers of two
>> of his albums). There's a 1976 session here of both
>> Patti alone, and with the band, done in hopes of getting
>> the cover of "Radio Ethiopia", which ultimately went
>> to someone else. Of his pre-"Horses" portraits, the
>> only one likely to strike a lot of people as familiar
>> or representative of those days is this one:
>>
>>   http://www.postmodern.com/~fi/pattipics/htm/keith.htm
>>
>> Lots of it looks like a dress rehearsal for iconic
>> status, which in a way it was. So if you like your
>> Patti photos young, healthy and girly, this is a
>> good book to pick up.
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