Robin Graubard Patti Smith and Jim Carroll, 2006

Vintage black and white archival silverprint
Literature: Vintage photograph of Jim Carroll and Patti Smith, this photograph was taken in 2006. Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote “The Basketball Diaries,” was first encouraged to combine his poetry with rock 'n' roll band for the Jim Carroll Band's music by Patti Smith. He performed with Patty many times, and Patti's sentiments on their friendship explains some of the void the medium bending artist left in this scene.

"The catastrophe of loss, the loss of a true poet, is so pure that it might for many pass unnoticed. But the universe knows, and no doubt Jim Carroll was drawn from his labors and the prison of his own infirmities to the distances of the greater freedom."

-Patti Smith
Dimensions: 8 x 12 x 0.5 in (20.32 x 30.48 x 1.27 cm)
signature info: Signed on verso
Edition: 2 of 3