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Lynn Goldsmith is an American

United States

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recording artist, a film director

Film director

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and a celebrity

Celebrity

A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...

portrait photographer

Portrait photography

Portrait photography or portraiture is the capture by means of photography of the likeness of a person or a small group of people , in which the face and expression is predominant. The objective is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject...

. Her work has appeared on the covers and in publications in many countries for the past 35 years. She has done over 100 album cover

Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...

s. In addition to her editorial work, Goldsmith has also focused on fine art photography

Fine art photography

Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created in accordance with the creative vision of the photographer as artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism, which provides a visual account for news events, and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to...

with conceptual images

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

Biography

Goldsmith was born in Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

. Her mother was an interior decorator and her father was an engineer

Engineer

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. Her older sister, Ellen Nieves, is a painter

Painting

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living in upstate New York

Upstate New York

Upstate New York is the region of the U.S. state of New York that is located north of the core of the New York metropolitan area.-Definition:There is no clear or official boundary between Upstate New York and Downstate New York...

. Goldsmith lived in Detroit until high school when she moved to Florida

Florida

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. She graduated from Miami Beach High School

Miami Beach High School

Miami Beach Senior High School, commonly referred to as "Beach High" or "MBSH", is a secondary school located at 2231 Prairie Avenue in the Miami Beach, Florida, right around the corner from the Miami Beach Convention Center and Botanical Gardens on Prairie Avenue and Dade Boulevard...

and then attended the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

where she graduated in just three years with 2 degrees in English

English studies

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and Psychology

Psychology

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. She was magna cum laude.

Career

After college, Goldsmith worked for Elektra Records

Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

. In 1971, she met Joshua White and worked with him as a director for Joshua TV, the first company to do video magnification for rock groups entertaining at large venues. That same year, Goldsmith became the youngest member ever to be inducted into the Directors Guild of America

Directors Guild of America

Directors Guild of America is an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry...

. In 1972, Goldsmith directed ABC's In Concert

ABC In Concert

In Concert is a late-night television series created by Don Kirshner. Hosted by Don E. Branker, the series was a showcase for bands of the era to be taped "in concert" and then broadcast on ABC on Friday nights.-In Concert:...

, the first rock show on network television. After directing a documentary piece on Grand Funk Railroad

Grand Funk Railroad

Grand Funk Railroad is an American rock band that was highly popular during the 1970s. Grand Funk Railroad toured constantly to packed arenas worldwide. A popular take on the band during its heyday was that, although the critics hated them, audiences loved them...

for ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, Goldsmith made a film on Grand Funk called "We're an American Band

We're an American Band

We're An American Band is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad, credited as Grand Funk. The album was released by Capitol Records on July 15, 1973 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America a little over a month after its release. Two...

" in 1973. This led to her becoming the band's co-manager.

In the mid-seventies, she left managing and directing to focus on her photography. Goldsmith started the first photo agency that represented images of famous people in the entertainment field. The company, LGI, grew over the next 20 years to represent over 300 photographers worldwide.

During that time, Goldsmith also wrote songs and performed as Will Powers

Will Powers

Will Powers was the stage name used by celebrity photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, when she created a self help comedy music album. The 1983 album, entitled Dancing for Mental Health, used affirmations set to music to poke fun at the self help entrepreneurs who "build the listener's inner self and...

, and was signed to Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

. In 1997, Goldsmith sold LGI to Corbis

Corbis

Corbis Corporation is an American company, based in Seattle, Washington, that licenses the rights to photographs, footage and other visual media...

so she could concentrate more fully on her fine art photography and work with the Will Powers Institute.

Goldsmith's Books

Rock and Roll http://lynngoldsmith.com/rockandroll/bkrandr1.html

The Police:1978-1983 http://lynngoldsmith.com/police2/bkpolice1.html

Bruce Springsteen

The Police http://lynngoldsmith.com/police/bkpolice.html

Marky Mark http://lynngoldsmith.com/mm/bkmm.html

NY Times Bestseller New Kids http://lynngoldsmith.com/nkotb/bknkotb.html

Circus Dreams http://lynngoldsmith.com/circus/bkcircus.html

PhotoDiary http://www.lynngoldsmith.com/LG/index.html

Springsteen: Access All Areas http://lynngoldsmith.com/aaa/bkaaa.html

Flowerhttp://lynngoldsmith.com/flowers/bkflower.html

Credits

SOCIETIES

Director’s Guild of America

American Society of Media Photographers

American Society of Media Photographers

The American Society of Media Photographers, abbreviated ASMP, is a trade association of professional photographers, including many photojournalists but also experts in architectural, underwater, culinary and advertising photography and other specialties as well...

American Federation of Musicians

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada is a labor union of professional musicians in the United States and Canada...

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent, including actors in radio and television, as well as radio and television announcers and newspersons, singers and recording artists , promo and voice-over announcers and other...

AWARDS - PHOTO

1981 - NPC International

1982 - NPC International

1985 - World Press - Portraiture

1986 - Lucien Clerque Award

1987 - NPC International

1990 - Art Director’s Club - Magazine Editorial for People Magazine’s Most Beautiful People issue

1991 - Art Director’s Club - Book - 70th National Exhibition Merit Award for NEW KIDS

1992 - Art Director’s Club - Book - 71st National Exhibition Merit Award for Circus Dreams

1994 - NPC International

2005 - Photowork 05 - Barrett Art Center - Poughkeepsie NY for Tea Cup Dreams

2005 - B&W Spider Awards Vintage 1st place winner

AWARDS -VIDEO

1984 - Int’l Television and Film Festival of New York - Gold Medal

1984 - Int’l Television and Film Festival of New York - Silver Medal

1984 - Monitor Award

1984 - ArtExpo NY featured in Electronic Art

1984 - Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

Circulating Video Library

1985 - Int’l Television and Film Festival of New York - Silver Medal

1985 - Houston International Film Festival - Gold Award

1985 - Int’l Television and Film Festival of New York - Silver Medal

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