We’ve invited Flyn Vibert of Leather Saints Archive to share historical insight into the posters on display from the 1976 Patti Smith Group European tours.

Howl’s Aldo Hernandez opens with a summary of the graphic artists and designers in Post More Bills.

About Flyn & the Leather Saints Archive
Flyn Vibert is an artist and photographer, who created the Leather Saints Archive (an excellent online resource on Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe) in 2020.
Born in London, they currently live and work in Berlin, Germany. They have a Masters degree in Photography, and studied at the Cambridge School of Art, Central Saint Martins and the London College of Fashion. Flyn’s work has been published with Du Magazine, Hunger, and WeTransfer, among others, and their art has been exhibited in the UK, France, Germany, and the US.

Leather Saints is an online archive and research project which encompasses hundreds of photographs and stories. It explores Patti Smith’s journey through her autobiography Just Kids and the interconnected lives of the artists, poets, musicians, filmmakers, and performers who populated New York’s downtown scene in the 1960/70s.