Lynn Goldsmith

Lynn Goldsmith’s imagery has graced the covers of magazines, books, and record jackets for over 5 decades. Her photographs are in numerous museum collections: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Museum Folkwang, The Polaroid Collection, The Kodak Collection, etc. Subjects have varied from entertainment personalities to sports stars, from film directors to authors, from the extra-ordinary to the ordinary man on the street. Fourteen books of her imagery have been published.

The most current released by Taschen is the collector’s limited edition book: Patti Smith Before Easter After. The publishing of high-end photography books changed with the massive success of her 1990 Rizzoli book New Kids. On The New York Times Best Seller list, a rare occurrence for any coffee table book of photography, it opened the door for photographic art books that documented living artists of popular culture. Lynn considers all her portraiture whether it be of the famous, the unknown individual, or her self-portraits, to be investigations into the nature of identity and the human spirit.