Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Two Amateurs, Reinventing the Wheel

WHEN Steven Sebring began filming Patti Smith, 12 years ago, he was, by his own admission, pretty much an amateur. He made his living as a fashion photographer, as he still does. He didn’t own a movie camera. (He now does.) He had been hired by Spin magazine to shoot some pictures for a story on Ms. Smith, and although his wife, he said, “nearly fell off her chair” when he told her about the assignment, he didn’t know very much about his subject, the singer, poet and artist whose 1975 album “Horses” had, if not revolutionized rock ’n’ roll, at least infused it with a new and arresting sort of incantatory power. [...]

di Terrence Rafferty, articolo completo (5965 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 27 luglio 2008