Some rock photographers have it, others don’t, but Lynn Goldsmith is the pinnacle to which they all should aspire. A photographer since childhood and, perhaps more important, a career fan, she has a loving way with the lens that infuses her celebrity prints with surging, active life. That she loves the muscles and sweat and sexuality of her subjects is evident in every shot on every page of her breathtaking collection, Rock and Roll, which is flat-out exactly what I want stacked on my coffee table this summer. Even better, though, would be a signed copy.
I’ll have my chance to snag her “Lynn Goldsmith” on mine this weekend, when she comes to town for a showing of The Looking Glass Series (a fascinating series of self-portraits as mannequins) and several Rock and Roll book signings, from 6 to 9 p.m. today and tomorrow at Masters Gallery at the Promenade, 8000 East Belleview Avenue in Greenwood Village (303-221-2449), and from 1 to 3 and 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Clayton Lane Fine Arts, 110 Clayton Lane (720-214-5263). For more about Goldsmith, go to www.lynngoldsmith.com.
July 17-18, 6-9 p.m., 2008
