“Herman Hesse’s typewriter, Bolaño’s chair, Smith’s father’s favourite cup, Virginia Woolf’s cane and bed. It is as if she were furnishing a home with these photographs for the ghosts of her favorite lives.”
The recently opened Patti Smith: Camera Solo is featured at Bomblog. The piece discusses the “symbolic portrait” within the collected images, while also examining the relationship between Smith’s photographic process and grief.
