A BOOK OF DAYS

À propos

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith''s singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram

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 "Hello Everybody!" 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 Smith''s world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she''s reading, the graves of beloved heroes - William 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 Smith''s unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother''s keychain, and a husband''s Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are never-before-seen photos of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafes, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.

With 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, playful - and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process - A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist''s life.>


  • Auteur(s)

    Patti Smith

  • Éditeur

    Bloomsbury

  • Distributeur

    Olf

  • Date de parution

    25/04/2024

  • EAN

    9781526650993

  • Disponibilité

    Disponible

  • Nombre de pages

    416 Pages

  • Longueur

    18 cm

  • Largeur

    13 cm

  • Épaisseur

    3.3 cm

  • Poids

    570 g

  • Support principal

    Poche

Patti Smith

Patti Smith grandit dans une petite ville du New Jersey avant de partir s'installer à New York où elle rencontre Robert Mapplethorpe. Avec lui, elle marquera bientôt le siècle. Elle mène une vie de bohème désargentée et se construit en tant qu'artiste dans les milieux underground. Grande admiratrice de la poésie française du XXe siècle, en particulier d'Arthur Rimbaud, elle interprète sur scène ses propres poèmes avant de les mettre en musique et de devenir chanteuse. Elle deviendra rapidement une icône du rock et de la culture punk. En 2016, Bob Dylan lui demande de le représenter auprès de l'Académie suédoise pour la remise du Prix Nobel de littérature. À plus de 70 ans, elle est repartie pour une tournée mondiale, prévue jusqu'en 2022.

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