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      • In 1989, with Mapplethorpe battling AIDS, Smith reached out to the photographer to share a touching moment as well as her adoration for him. It’s a letter that sadly Mapplethorpe would never see, passing away before he could read it. The full letter can be read below as one soul mate says goodbye, in her way, to another soul mate.
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  3. www.themarginalian.org › 2016/03/25 › patti-smithPatti Smith Reads Her Beautiful Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe ...

    Mar 25, 2016 · Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe (Courtesy of Tate Museum) The letter appears in Smith’s tremendous Just Kids (public library), which also gave us her reflections on reading as a form of prayer and the story of the childhood epiphany in which she knew she was an artist.

  4. faroutmagazine.co.uk › patti-smith-robertThe heartbreaking letter Patti Smith sent Robert Mapplethorpe ...

    Sep 22, 2020 · In her book Just Kids, Smith described Mapplethorpe as a “hippie shepherd boy” who she said made her feel like they were a two-of-a-kind due to their shared artistic drive and they “fulfilled a role for each other”.

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  6. faroutmagazine.co.uk › patti-smith-robert-mappleThe heartbreaking final letter Patti Smith sent to Robert ...

    Jun 14, 2020 · In 1989, with Mapplethorpe battling AIDS, Smith reached out to the photographer to share a touching moment as well as her adoration for him. It’s a letter that sadly Mapplethorpe would never see, passing away before he could read it.

  7. www.grunge.com › 1068171Inside The Relationship Of Patti Smith And Robert Mapplethorpe

    Oct 29, 2022 · It was their creativity that really brought Smith and Mapplethorpe closer. Smith tells NPR that, while she's hesitant to credit herself for Mapplethorpe's photography, she did push him to pursue the craft. "I said, 'You should take your own photographs.'

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  8. www.openculture.com › 2012 › 06Patti Smith Reads Her Final Words to Her Dear Friend Robert ...

    While those 278 pages will tell you every­thing you need to know about it, the 178 words of Smith’s let­ter to the dying Map­plethor­pe fea­tured last week on Let­ters of Note say near­ly as much. But don’t take it from me; in the video above, you can hear the let­ter as read by Smith her­self.

  9. www.youtube.com › watchPatti Smith reads her own goodbye letter to Robert Mapplethorpe

    May 20, 2024 · In the days preceding his untimely death, Patti wrote her soul mate a letter—a letter which he sadl ...more. Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe enjoyed a close, often intense relationship...

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  10. www.themarginalian.org › 2013/05/31 › patti-smithPatti Smith Reads Her Poetic Tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe

    May 31, 2013 · Nowhere is this dual definition more ablaze with life than in The Coral Sea (public library) by the eclectically brilliant Patti Smith — a breathtaking collection of prose poems exorcising Smith’s profound grief for her lifelong spirit-mate, beloved photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946–March 9, 1989). She describes the ...