Join renowned photographer Lynn Goldsmith and NPR music critic, correspondent, and author Ann Powers for a thought-provoking conversation exploring the dynamic intersections of music and photography. This conversation is presented in conjunction with Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm.
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About Lynn Goldsmith
Lynn Goldsmith is an acclaimed photographer, director, and multimedia artist whose work spans more than five decades. Her photographs are held in major institutions including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, MoMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Museum Folkwang. Her portraits have appeared in and on the covers of Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, and dozens of major foreign publications. Seventeen books of her work have been published by respected art book publishers like Taschen, Rizzoli, and Abrams.
A pioneer in visual storytelling, Goldsmith was the youngest woman admitted to the Directors Guild of America. She helped shape early music television, directing ABC TV’s In Concert. She moved on to comanage Grand Funk Railroad when there were no women managers in the music business and a decade later was a recording artist herself on Island Records under the stage name Will Powers. Her debut album, Dancing for Mental Health, reached number three on the UK charts. She has written songs with Nile Rodgers, Steve Winwood, Sting, and Todd Rundgren.
About Ann Powers
Ann Powers is NPR Music’s critic and correspondent. Throughout a long career in music writing, she has worked at The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and many other publications. A former curator at Seattle’s Museum of Popular Culture, she is the author of Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell (2024); Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music (2017), which was selected as one of the best books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal, No Depression, NPR, and Buzzfeed; the New York Times best-selling Tori Amos Piece by Piece, coauthored with the artist (2005); and Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. With Evelyn McDonnell, she edited the classic anthology Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Rap, and Pop (1995). Her essays have been widely anthologized. In 2017, she cofounded NPR’s award-winning Turning the Tables, an ongoing project to recenter the popular music canon to be more inclusive of marginalized, underestimated, and forgotten voices. She lives in Nashville.
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