Lynn Goldsmith (born 1948) is an American recording artist,

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portrait photographer, and rock and roll photographer. She has also made fine art photography with conceptual images and her paintings. Taschen, Rizzoli, and Abrams have published books on her work. In 1985, she received a World Press Photo award. In the 1980s, she wrote songs and performed as Will Powers. In 2023, she was part of a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with the limits of

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concerning a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen portraits based on a Goldsmith photo of the musician

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Life

Goldsmith was born in

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, in 1948. She attended the

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, where she graduated in three years ''

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'' with two degrees, in English and

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. After college, in 1969, Goldsmith worked for

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. In 1971, she met Joshua White and worked with him as a director for Joshua TV. That same year, Goldsmith was inducted into the

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. In 1972, she directed

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's '' In Concert''. After directing a documentary piece on

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for ABC, she made a film on Grand Funk called ''We're an American Band'' in 1973. This led to her becoming the band's co-manager. In the mid-1970s, she left managing and directing to focus on her photography. Goldsmith founded the photo agency LGI, representing images of famous people in the

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. During that time, she also wrote songs, performed as Will Powers, and was signed to Island Records. In 1997, Goldsmith sold LGI to Corbis so she could concentrate more fully on her fine art photography and work with the Will Powers Institute. She chronicled the lives of

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, and

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' stadium tours. Her photographs have appeared on the covers of magazines and have been used for book and

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Gallery

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Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith

In 2016, the Andy Warhol Foundation filed a pre-emptive lawsuit in federal court against Goldsmith, who then countersued, citing copyright infringement of a portrait of Prince she'd taken in 1981. The Foundation argued that Warhol's "fair use" of the image was under copyright law because Warhol "transformed" the image. The Warhol Foundation won in federal court, and Goldsmith appealed and won in the

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The Foundation appealed the decision, and Goldsmith won again. The Warhol Foundation then filed an appeal to the

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. The case was heard on October 20, 2022. On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court sided with Goldsmith in a 7–2 vote.

Publications

*''Springsteen''. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985. . *''New Kids''. Rizzoli, 1990. . *''Circus Dreams''. Rizzoli, 1991. . *''Marky Mark''. Harper Perennial, 1992. . *''Photodiary: A Musical Journey''. Rizzoli, 1995. . *''Flower''. Rizzoli, 2000. . *''Springsteen: Access All Areas''. Rizzoli, 2000. . *''Rock and Roll''. Abrams, 2007. . *''The Police: 1978–1983''. Little, Brown, 2007. . *''The Looking Glass''. Insight, 2011. . *''Rock and Roll Stories''. Abrams, 2013. . *''KISS: 1977–1980''. Rizzoli, 2017. . *''Patti Smith: Before Easter After''. Taschen, 2019. *''Music in the '80s''. Rizzoli, 2022. . * 'Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band- Darkness on The Edge of Town' Taschen 2023

Awards

*2021: Lifetime Achievement in Portraiture, Lucie Awards

References

External links

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Goldsmith Interviews The Police

Goldsmith photo shoot with Elvira

Lynn Goldsmith in conversation with Lauren Coyle Rosen, ''The Spiritual Muses''
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