In the summer of 1967, two bohemian-looking 20-year-olds were wandering through New York's Washington Square Park, filled with its usual crowd of students, tourists, drug dealers, chess players and folk singers.
. "Oh, take their picture," said a woman to her husband, eyeing the young couple. "I think they're artists. They might be somebody someday." Her husband shrugged.
. "They're just kids."
[From the review of the book, "Just Kids", by Patti Smith pictured above. With her is Robert Mapplethorpe on the Coney Island boardwalk in 1969. The two enjoyed a relationship for two decades. Review appeared in the Sunday Jan 17, 2010 SF Chronicle, Section F.]
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