The story behind Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith’s first photo shoot together:
in 1964. The pair had just started at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, both majoring in Communication Arts. Though they never became that close during their college years, they remained friendly throughout and, a little while after graduation, Lloyd -- who had had begun practising photography -- was looking for striking faces to shoot. “I hadn’t considered photography until my college roommate loaned me his Rolleiflex and showed me how to develop film in our closet,” Lloyd says.
A year later, Lloyd had moved to Manhattan into a basement apartment on Charles Street in the West Village, while Robert and Patti were living in the Chelsea Hotel. Robert asked Lloyd if he could shoot some nude portraits of him and Patti. Still seemingly a couple at the time, the images were shot still a little while before Robert had become a fixture of the city’s underground gay bars and cruising spots.
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