Lynn Goldsmith

Lynn Goldsmith (born February 11, 1948) is a recording artist, a film director and a celebrity portrait photographer. Her work has appeared on the covers and inside almost any important publication in every country for the past 35 years. She has done over 100 album covers. In addition to her editorial work, Goldsmith has also focused on fine art photography with conceptual images.

Biography

Goldsmith was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her mother was an interior decorator and her father was an engineer. Her older sister, Ellen Nieves, is a painter living in upstate New York. Goldsmith lived in Detroit until high school when she moved to Florida. She graduated from Miami Beach High School and then attended the University of Michigan where she graduated in just three years with 2 degrees in English and Psychology. She was magna cum laude.

Career

After college, Goldsmith worked for Elektra Records. 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. In 1972, Goldsmith directed ABC's "In Concert", the first rock show on network television. While directing a documentary piece on Grand Funk Railroad for ABC, she decided she wanted to work more with the band and made a film on them called "We're an American Band" in 1973. This led to her becoming the band's co-manager and leading them to their first #1 hit single. In the mid-seventies, she left managing and directing behind to focus on her photography. Goldsmith started the first photo agency that represented the 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, and was signed to Island Records. Her videos were the first to use three-dimensional computer animation. 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.

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]
"Flower" [http://lynngoldsmith.com/flowers/bkflower.html]

Credits

SOCIETIES
Director’s Guild of America

American Society of Media Photographers

American Federation of Musicians

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

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 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

References

Goldsmith Bio from Lexar [cite web |url=http://lexar.com/dp/pro_photo/lgoldsmith |title= |accessdate=2007-09-27 |format= |work=]

External links

* [http://lynngoldsmith.com Lynn Goldsmith Homepage]
* [http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/LG/police_videos/videos_a.html Goldsmith Interviews The Police]
* [http://lynngoldsmith.com/videos/videos_c.htm Goldsmith Interviewed by Robin Leach for the show "Talking Food"]
* [http://lynngoldsmith.com/videos/videos.htm Goldsmith Interviewed by Bill O'Reilly for the show "Straight Forward"]
* [http://pdngallery.com/masters/ PDN-Online Master Series-Lynn Goldsmith]
* [http://www.elvira.com/plchest/picswlyn/ Goldsmith photo shoot with Elvira]
* [http://www.dynalite.com/flynn_n.html Dyna-Lite Photography Flash Equipment, Lynn Goldsmith]
* [http://www.willpowersinstitute.com/ Will Powers Institute]