Mapplethorpe

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The rock musician Patti Smith and the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe have both become known as pioneers of powerful self-expression, but “Just Kids” tells the story of the days when, barely out of their teens, the pair shared an apartment at the Chelsea Hotel.

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There, we see Ms. Smith experimenting with poetry and music and Mapplethorpe emerging as a provocative visual artist, each tapping into the electric scene that was downtown Manhattan in the late 1960s and ’70s.

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Mapplethorpe “approached dressing like living art,” Ms. Smith recalls, leading him to embark on an “aesthetic treasure hunt” to answer “the Shakespearean question: should he or should he not wear three necklaces?”

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They grew up on retro images of cool such as a waifish Joan Didion holding a cigarette or the young Patti Smith in a black T-shirt and black jeans smoking next to Robert Mapplethorpe.

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This gasconade is backed up by the nearby portraits he made of other artists indebted to his influence: Basquiat, Clemente, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring.

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