Sam Shepard in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2011.

With Patti Smith, opening night performance of Cowboy Mouth, New York, 1971. Photo: Courtesy of Gerard Malanga

Herb Ritts for Interview Magazine, September 1988. Photo: Courtesy of Herb Ritts Foundation

San Marcos, Texas, 1980. Photo: Johnny Dark/the Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark Collection/the Wittliff Collections/texas State University–San Marcos

Arizona, 1979. Photo: Johnny Dark/The Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark Collection/The Wittliff Collections/Texas State University–San Marcos.

With Jessica Lange at the Natural Los Angeles Premiere, May 1984. Photo: Ron Galella/Wireimage

Herb Ritts for Interview Magazine, September 1988. Photo: Courtesy of Herb Ritts Foundation

Sante Fe, 1984. Photo: Johnny Dark/The Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark Collection/The Wittliff Collections/texas State University–San Marcos

Detail of Buried Child Playbill.

All Clothing: Artist’s Own. Special Thanks: Sante Fe Institute.