A signed 1st edition of this new volume of photography from American singer-songwriter, poet, artist and author Patti Smith (b. 1946), which has an image for each day of the year, and continues the work/images from her hugely-followed Instagram channel since 2018.  




Dubbed the 'Punk Poet Laureate', as well as her successful music career (she was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007), she won the National Book Award in 2010 for her acclaimed memoir 'Just Kids'.







'A Book Of Days ' published by Bloomsbury in London on 15 November 2022, 1st edition/1st printing, medium size hardback (7.25in x 5.25in), (xii) + 387 pages, photographs throughout in colour and b&w.




Flat hand signed by Patti Smith to a special bookplate affixed to the half-title page.


In fine unread condition.







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.






'A photobook that works as a piece of literature, opening windows on a life of incident and inquiry. It is joyous and mournful in equal measure but the overall effect is of the curious possibilities of life's meandering journey' ― FINANCIAL TIMES






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