“Who is Harry Smith?
Facts about his life, especially his early life, are hard to come by.
He was one of the great downtown New York figures of the second half of the 20th century.
He wandered the world as if it were his personal shoreline.
Smith was an ambassador from the territory Greil Marcus has delineated as the “old, weird America.”
Persons:
Harry Smith, John Szwed, ” John Szwed, “, Smith, Walker Evans, James Agee, Evans, billy, Patti Smith, Szwed, Greil Marcus, ”
Organizations:
Folk, Chelsea Hotel
Locations:
New York, flophouses