# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CYG0J2Bs4zB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16444971-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/5e70c5005f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-12-30T12:10:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

"I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now, when they're alive...the time to flower is now.”⁠
The punk poet laureate, Patti Smith turns 75 today. A noted photographer herself, the singer and writer is captured here by David Gahr, at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, 1971. Smith had previously shared a room in the Manhattan landmark with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, documented in her 2010 memoir, Just Kids.⁠
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📷: David Gahr/Getty Images I thedavidgahr I gettyarchive I #GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠
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punkpoet, nyhistory, manhattan, nostalgia, pattismith, preservingthepast, davidgahr, gettyimages, chelseahotel, americanliterature, justkids, botd, thechelsea, musichistory, historyphotographed, uspoetry, musicphotography, gettyarchive

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