The rock poet publishes a book of photographs, three hundred and sixty-six, one for each day of the year plus the leap year. Forced to give up her beloved Polaroid due to lack of film, in 2010 she purchased a smartphone and it immediately became art, managing to give intellectual dignity to new technologies too.
The photos she takes, the images she portrays are populated by “hungry ghosts” as she herself describes them; they represent multiple universes and never stop at just the highlighted subject. Her passion for New York, her city, her infinite love for her husband Frederick, for her lost brother, for her family, including Cairo, the sacredness of friendship for Bob Dylan, Sam Shephard, Michael Stipe.
Hers is not an irruptive anarchy as it was for the fantastic Janis Joplin, Patti’s is a gentle revolution dictated by the principle of non-belligerence inherent in her very nature, arising from profound thoughts and concrete reflections on the realities of the world and given by ‘being born free to be able to maintain one’s independence, to express one’s opinions always and in any case through music, words, images, demonstrating in first person: “the world is my country, humanity is my race , good is my religion”, the words of the philosopher Thomas Paine represent it completely.
Moral compass
She who in this global disorder for many generations and not only of rockers has been and will remain a moral compass.
Patti Smith and Italy
The volume, a true emotional map, is published by Bompiani and was presented in Italy, a country dear to the artist, with a tour of theaters and some artistically significant places that touched the main Italian cities, unfortunately interrupted in recent years. stages due to an illness that struck the singer and which forced her to take a period of rest.
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2024-03-28 13:01:31