Patti Smith and photographer Lynn Goldsmith capture punk rock glory days in “Before Easter After.”
Patti Smith wants to talk about collaboration. It’s a Tuesday afternoon and she is in a room at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, cup of coffee in her hand. In a few hours she will be on a small stage at the Taschen store in Beverly Hills, performing with longtime band mate Tony Shanahan; their five-song set will include “Ghost Dance,” “Dancing Barefoot” and “Because the Night.”
The perspective is one Goldsmith shares. “I’m going to die, and I want to die having had meaningful relationships with people,” she says, laughing in her own room, just one flight down from Smith’s. “Before Easter After” — published in a collector’s edition of 1,300 copies; the price is $700 — sits open on a table in front of her. The book is “the greatest gift,” Goldsmith continues, “not only the loyalty, but because doing it with people you know is really what life is about.
This quality of innocence — or better yet, discovery — remains essential to Smith’s work. “I did it for poetry,” she enthuses in “A photograph of Patti Smith in 1975 as seen in “Before Easter After.”,” brings that innocence to bear in a different way, blurring the line between the waking world and the more elusive territory of dreams.
“Speak to me,” Smith writes, “speak to me shadow,” a line from her song “Paths That Cross.” The reference is fitting, not only because it connects “Before Easter After” to the larger arc of Smith’s life and work, but also because of the collaboration at the project’s heart. Taken together, after all, these images offer a story of redemption; this is their overriding narrative.“Easter,” Goldsmith says, “is about resurrection.
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