Overview
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In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message āHello Everybody!ā Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smithās world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books sheās reading, the graves of beloved heroesāWilliam Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smithās unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a motherās keychain, and a husbandās Mosrite guitar. Here, too,Ā are photos from Smithās archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafĆ©s, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.
With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playfulāand complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary processāA Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artistās life.
This book title, A Book of Days, ISBN: 9780593730386, by Patti Smith, published by Random House Publishing Group (April 16, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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