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Author:
Patti Smith
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
November 15, 2022
A visual book of days by the author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Patti Smith's singular aestheticâinspired by her popular Instagram.
What The Reviewers Say
A Book of Days is not a starting point for getting one’s arms around the artwork, legacy, or history of Smith, and not because she assumes the reader knows these things already. She may just be finished talking about them.
Smith poignantly mixes pictures from her Chicago childhood, early New York years, family life with Fred 'Sonic' Smith, and various pilgrimages with new images, some chronicling the pandemic. Detecting the sacred everywhere she looks, Smith photographs her 'desk talismans' and personal shrines.
Inspired by the captioned photo format, this book provides an image for every day of the year and descriptions that are by turns intimate, humorous, and insightful, and each bit of text adds human depth to the image.
