Patti Smith: Camera Solo

The pioneering artist, musician, and poet, Patti Smith has made her mark on the American cultural landscape throughout her 40-year career, from her earliest explorations of artistic expression with friend and vanguard photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and 70s to her profound influence on the nascent punk rock scene in the late 1970s and 80s. Patti Smith: Camera Solo will be the first museum exhibition of her photography in the United States. The exhibition will include seventy photographs, one multi-media installation and one video work. Also on view will be a number of objects depicted in the photographs along with a selection of original Polaroids.

The exhibition was curated by Susan L. Talbott, Director and CEO. Erin Monroe, Acting Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, served as project coordinator. Support for the exhibition is provided by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc., The Calvin Klein Family Foundation, Mark Bertolini, Liam & Lori McGee and The Larsen Photography Fund.

Patti Smith: Camera Solo will be on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT  from October 21, 2011 – February 19, 2012.

All images © Patti Smith Courtesy the artist and Robert Miller Gallery