Delve Deeper Into Patti Smith: Dream of Life a Film by Steven Sebring
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Delve Deeper into Patti Smith: Dream of Life A film by Steven Sebring Shot over 11 years by renowned Steven Sebring Smith, Patti. Patti Smith fashion photographer Steven Complete 1975-2006: Lyrics, Sebring, Patti Smith: Dream of Sebring, Steven. Claude and Reflections & Notes for the Life is an intimate portrait of the Francois-Xavier Lalanne. New Future. New York: Harper legendary rocker, poet and artist. York, NY: Reed Krakoff/Paul Perennial, 2006. Along with her Following Smith's personal Kasmin/Ben Brown, 2006. A lyrics, this compilation provides an reflections over a decade, the film book detailing the famed French understanding of the context for her explores her many art forms and couple’s artwork. albums, her thoughts and work with the friends and poets who inspired fellow musicians. her — William Burroughs, Allen Sebring, Steven and Patti Smith. Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Robert Bygone Days: 1907-1957 Smith, Patti. Trois. London: Mapplethorpe and Michael Stipe. Photographs by John Penor and Thames & Hudson, 2008. Over a She emerges as a crucial, Family. New York: Distributed period of almost thirty years, Smith contemporary link between the Art Publishers, 2005. Born in created three books of her artistic Beats, punks and today's music. 1910 in Bison, South Dakota, John world. This special collection Shot in lush, dark tones, featuring Penor spent his life working with showcases volumes of her poetry, rare performance clips and narrated horses and cattle while photography, drawings and by the artist herself, Patti Smith: photographing his hometown life. handwriting. It is a testament to Dream of Life is an impressionistic Fifty years later his grand-nephew, Smith’s interest in all forms of journal of a multi-faceted artist that Steven Sebring, discovered his expression. underscores her unique place in photograph negatives in a box, then American culture. Winner of the published them in this collection Visual Art by Patti Smith 2008 Sundance Film Festival that captures his relative’s Excellence in Cinematography distinctive eye and realities. The Patti Smith: Land 250. London: Award: Documentary. A production book also includes a foreword by Thames & Hudson, 2008. This of Clean Socks and THIRTEEN. Sebring’s muse, Patti Smith. catalogue, published to accompany Produced by Steven Sebring, the Cartier Foundation’s exhibition, Margaret Smilow and Scott Vogel. Sebring, Steven and Patti Smith Land 250, provides a unique Patti Smith: Dream of Life. New opportunity to view 250 ________________________ York: Rizzoli, 2008. Published in photographs by the artist and is ADULT NONFICTION conjunction with the film of the supplemented by her same title, this book is a collection commentaries. Patti Smith of Sebring’s photographs of Patti Smith throughout the years. The Ed. Smith, John. Patti Smith: Bayley, Roberta and Victor images capture Smith as a poet, Strange Messenger. Bockris. Patti Smith: An musician, style icon, and activist. Pennsylvania: The Andy Warhol Unauthorized Biography. New Museum, 2003. Patti Smith: York: Simon and Schuster, Books by Patti Smith Strange Messenger catalogues the 1999. Bockris and Bayley tell the 2003 exhibit held at the Institute of story of Smith’s transformation Smith, Patti. Auguries of Contemporary Art at the University from a child raised by Jehovah’s Innocence. New York: Ecco, of Pennsylvania, arranged in Witnesses to an urban-dwelling 2008. In this collection of published conjunction with the Andy Warhol punk icon. Along the way she poems and lyrics, Smith reflects on Museum. The sixty works included radicalizes the role of women in contemporary issues like the war in in the exhibition are specifically music and overcomes a number of Iraq, world-wise hunger and a inspired by the events of September challenges in her personal return to innocence. 11th and her war against relationships. In addition, Bockris intolerance. includes the first interview with Smith, Patti. Early Work: 1970- Smith, which he himself conducted 1979. New York: W.W. Norton & History of Punk in 1972. Co., 2005. Early Work: 1970-1970 focuses on Smith’s work during the Cogan, Brian. The Encyclopedia Paytress, Mark. Break it Up: era when she was most active in of Punk. New York: Sterling Patti Smith’s “Horses” and the the punk movement, and the Publishers, 2008. The Remaking of Rock & Roll. turmoil of the 1970s. It is illustrated Encyclopedia’s rich pages are filled London: Portrait, 2006. The with photographs by Robert with images of recording sessions to release of Smith’s album, “Horses,” Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn, two of iconic album covers. Cogan’s played a crucial role in the art-punk her greatest artistic collaborators. informative entries include the movement of the mid-1970s. In this history of individual bands, punk book, Paytress explores how Smith Smith, Patti. Just Kids. Patti subgenres, terms, key musicians, changed the music world with her Smith. New York: Ecco, 2010. moments in punk television, distinctive aesthetic and became Smith’s first book of prose gives an complete discographies, record one of the most influential rock & in-depth glimpse into her labels and recommended albums. In roll artists of all time. relationship with the legendary addition, a timeline highlights the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, current state of punk since its as well as her life in New York City inception in the 1970s. in the late sixties and seventies. Delve Deeper into Patti Smith: Dream of Life A film by Steven Sebring Heylin, Clinton. From the Valentine, Gary. New York Over the course of their first night Velvets to the Voidoids: The Rocker: My Life in the Blank together the two roam Manhattan, Birth of American Punk Rock. Generation with Blondie, Iggy talking about everything from music Chicago: Chicago Review Press, Pop, and Others, 1974-1981. to breakups, and find that they 2005. Spanning from the early New York: Da Capo Press, 2006. have a good deal in common. beginnings of punk in the 1960s to In his inside account of the New the new wave movement in the York City punk scene, Gary Going, K.L. Fat Kid Rules the 1980s, this complete history Valentine talks about the music World. New York: Speak, 2004. includes in-depth analyses of the luminaries who made the East Troy Billings, an overweight and music and the insights of its Village club CBGB’s a haven for socially isolated teenager, is creators, including Patti Smith. artists. contemplating ending his life when a fellow high school student, Curt McCain, Gillian and Legs McNeil. ADULT FICTION MacCrae, decides to befriend him. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Troy is amazed when Curt, a Oral History of Punk. New York: Hauck, Thomas. Pistonhead. legendary punk rock musician, asks Grove Press, 2006. Hitting the Gloucester: Somthing.hot him to be a drummer in his band, Top Ten Book of the Year list of Communications, 2009. Hauck, and his life begins to turn around. Time Out and the New York Daily who spent 15 years as a guitarist News in its release, Please Kill Me and songwriter, tells the fictional Krovatin, Chris. Heavy Metal and provides exclusive interviews and story of Charlie Sinclair, a musician You. New York: Push, 2006. Sam anecdotes of those at the forefront who is struggling to make ends is a rebellious, heavy metal lover of the punk generation, featuring meet. Trying to work with who has all the smarts to attend a Patti Smith. In its accounts of the irresponsible band mates and to prestigious all-boys prep school in era, the book brings the endure inhospitable audiences, New York City. While cutting classes revolutionary New York City music Charlie begins to reconsider his and smoking pot, he begins to date scene of the 1970s to life. chosen path. the straightedge Melissa and decides to change his act – but his Punk: The Whole Story. New Marr, Johnny, Ed. Janine passion for music remains. York: DK Publishing, 2008. This Bullman. Punk Fiction: An definitive history of the punk Anthology of Short Stories Kuehnert, Stephanie. I Wanna movement includes a wide-range of Inspired by Punk. be Your Joey Ramone. New information and illustrations, such Charlottesville, VA: Portico, York: MTV, 2008. The rebellious as spreads on memorabilia, 2009. This anthology includes a Emily Black is raised in a small town interviews with leaders of the era, foreword by Johnny Marr of The in Wisconsin by a rocker father. articles from music magazines like Smiths, as well as short stories, Becoming engrossed in the farming MOJO and photographs of poems, and illustrations by town’s fringy music venue, River’s performances. important artists who are influenced Edge, Emily and her friend decide to by punk forerunners. start a punk band. Determined to Books by other Punk Rockers __________________________ fight the prejudices against female NONFICTION FOR YOUNG punkers, she begins to come into Hodkinson, Mark. The Last Mad ADULTS her own as an artist. Surge of Youth. West Yorkshire, UK: Pomona, 2009. While on his Bradman, Tony. My Dad’s a Nelson, Blake. Rock Star deathbed, John Barrett, of the punk Punk. London: Kingfisher, 2006. Superstar. New York: Speak, band, Killing Stars, recruits In this compilation of 12 short 2006. Pete is a bass-guitarist in his childhood friend Dave Carey to stories by boys grade 6 and up, Portland, Oregon high school rock ghostwrite this autobiography about each writer tells the story of their band, and is devoted to creating punk’s legacy. complex father/son relationship. quality music. However, when he The title story is written from the finally gets a chance at stardom he Hudson, Mike. Diary of a Punk. perspective of an adolescent whose begins to wonder if he can handle Niagra Falls, NV: Tuscarora elusive father plays in the punk the pressure of the music business.