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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Lynn Goldsmith has documented over five decades of American culture, photographing stars from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to David Bowie and Iggy Pop. She joins to talk about her legendary career behind the camera and new book, “Music in the ‘80s.”
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0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
0:07.0 | The camera's pretty big. Your face was hidden. You could be there, but not really be there. |
0:14.0 | I'm in it, but I'm not of it. That's always been a kind of protective layer for me. |
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0:33.0 | For 18 years, Debbie Melma has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, |
0:39.0 | how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. |
0:43.0 | On this episode, Len Goldsmith talks about photography and about the positive side of sexual attraction and the workplace. |
0:51.0 | It's nothing you have to act on it. It acts on you. |
1:00.0 | Hi, I'm Francis Frye, and I'm Ann Morris. |
1:03.0 | And we are the hosts of a new Ted podcast called Fixable. |
1:06.0 | We've helped leaders at some of the world's most competitive companies solve all kinds of problems. |
1:12.0 | On our show, we'll pull back the curtain and give you the type of honest, unfiltered advice we usually reserve for top executives. |
1:19.0 | Maybe you have a coworker with boundary issues or you want to know how to inspire and motivate your team. |
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1:35.0 | For some of us, the 80s don't feel so far away. |
1:40.0 | In fact, we simply don't understand where they went. |
1:44.0 | Well, if you're not, they are alive and well in Len Goldsmith's new book of iconic photographs of musicians and performers aptly titled Music in the 80s. |
1:57.0 | Included our portraits of the era's greatest artists, including Patty Smith, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Bob Marley, and Miles Davis at work in recording studios. |
2:13.0 | Glaming it up in concerts out and about New York City and lying around at home. |
2:20.0 | Len Goldsmith is also a recording artist so she knows that world intimately. |
2:26.0 | Over her long and legendary career as a photographer, she has created a vast archive of images of which this book is only a shimmering sliver. |
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