Almost finished with Patti’s Smith’s novel Just Kids during my trip here in London, and wanted to share the array of characters I’ve come across and obsessing over and over in my head. She has an amazing story, I urge you to pick it up..

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe

Patti Smith and then boyfriend Jim Carroll, writer

Tranny comedienne, Jackie Curtis

Robert Mapplethorpe, self portrait

1969 poster during Christmastime in Times Square by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Chelsea Hotel, home to writers, musicians, artists and vagabonds alike

Patti Smith on a roof in SoHo

The Factory

Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones

Patti Smith and Sam Shepard at her room in the Chelsea

Still from “Midnight Cowboy” which influenced Mapplethorpe’s secretive life as a husler on 42nd street in NYC

Allen Ginsberg

Factor It Girl Edie Sedgewick

Jackie Curtis portrait

Room at the Chelsea

Best friends, lovers, roommates, couple, un-couple poet/musician Patti Smith and artist Robert Mapplethorpe

Jackie Curtis at Warhol’s Factory

Where’s Warhol

Edie Sedgwick and The Velvet Underground, best band in NYC at the time

Patti Smith, self portrait, Brooklyn, 1968