Patti Smith: Photographer's Muse
TIME asked artist, writer and musician Patti Smith, one of this year's TIME 100 honorees, to tell us about her life in front of the lens. Smith shares some of her personal photographs and offers photographers some advice, from a subject's point of view.
To be the subject of a photographer, whether artist or blessed amateur, is a privilege and a joy.
As I mused earlier, photographing your everyday surroundings is, I feel, more challenging than snapping photos of faraway places. Finding the beauty in things you are intimately or casually familiar with on a daily basis forces you to look at them differently.
Portraiture, especially self-portraits, is my biggest photography shortcoming. This year I'm going to try to overcome my inhibitions about photographing people, including myself.
” This year I’m going to try to overcome my inhibitions about photographing people, including myself” Sounds like a resolution. :-)
I don’t think I want to couch it in that term. Will make getting out of it too easy. :)
Haha :-)