EAN: 9781526650986

A BOOK OF DAYS - PATTI SMITH GEBUNDEN

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**    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 cafés  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.

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