A YEAR IN PHOTOGRAPHS
SMITH, Patti A Book of Days. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.2022.
Small 8vo. Original publisher's white boards with gilt lettering to spine and olive endpapers with authors signature to half title; photographic dust wrapper in black; pp. [xii], 586, [2]; fine.
Signed, first edition
A Book of Days is an intensely visual portrait of the aritst's life, what with 365 of Patti Smith's accompanying photographs guiding the reader through an expansive journey around the world, as well as the mind.
Divulging her obsessions and devotions- from William Blake to Sylvia Plath- A Book of Days, with its insightful captions, referances how a legendary cutural icon migrated from her famous Land Camera 250 to posting updates of her life to Instragram, at the persussion of her daughter, garnering over a million devoted followers.
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