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Judy Linn
'''Judy Linn is an American photographer. She was particularly known for her portraits of musician Patti Smith, Robert Mapelthorpe, from the years of 1969-1976, as well as street photography of New York City and Detroit.

Early life and career
Linn was born in the suburbs Detroit, Michigan in 1947 where her father was a pathologist and her mother was a textile historian. She attended boarding school in Massachusetts before enrolling in the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and earning her BFA in 1969. Thereafter, she lived on Myrtle Avenue, in Brooklyn and then Little Italy whilst spending small stretches of time back in her hometown of Detroit.

From 1972-73, Linn worked for a small newspaper in southern MacComb county in conjunction with the Detroit Area Weekly News. She quit after a few months stating, “By the winter of 1973, I became bored with the job, too many handshakes and checks being passed, and returned to New York City.”

Linn lived in Little Italy for the majority of her time in New York. In the 80s, she worked as a freelance photographer for The Village Voice. Linn often would work alongside street-photographer Helen Levitt, taking photographs in East Harlem and The Lower East Side.

She taught for much of her career at alma mater Pratt Institute, as well as Sarah Lawrence College, Tisch School of the Arts,and Cooper Union. Since 1999, she has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Friendship and Collaboration with Patti Smith
Linn became acquainted with punk/rock singer/songwriter Patti Smith during her time as a student at Pratt in 1968. They were introduced by their boyfriends Peter Baronowsky and Robert Mapplethorpe. Influenced by their mutual affinity for fashion spreads and films such as Jean-Luc Godard’s Week-end and Jacques Rivette’s La Religieuse, Linn and Smith began making photographs that were often theatrical in nature. Smith states in her afterword: "I was eager to be Judy's model and to have the opportunity to work with a true artist. I felt protected in the atmosphere we created together. We had an inner narrative, producing our own unspoken film, with or without a camera."



Mostly shot in Smith and Mappelthorpe’s shared living quarters in Brooklyn and subsequently The Chelsea Hotel, Linn produced some of the earliest photographs of Smith and Mappelthorpe. These images were featured prominently in Smith’s 2010 memoir, Just Kids. They have also been featured in Brooklyn Museum’s 2009 exhibition, Who Shot Rock and Roll?. Linn’s photographs were also used as album covers for Smith’s album Radio Ethiopia(1976), and cover art for poetry collection Seventh Heaven(1972).

Awards and Recognition
Linn was a Whitney Biennial artist with the likes of painter Agnes Martin and photographer Nan Goldin in 1995. In 2005, Linn was awarded the Anonymous Was a Woman grant of $25,000 for her photography.