"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.'
They were Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe."





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