Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how t…

Patti Smith
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Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph. ✨ Just Kids by Patti Smith by Edmund White, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2010.
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