CAMERA SOLO

By Patti Smith
Published by Yale University Press / Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art | 2011
Softcover | 95 pages | 18.2 x 1.3 x 21.7 cm
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated Edition
Condition: Brand New

A hauntingly poetic reflection on memory, loss, and the act of seeing, Camera Solo gathers Patti Smith’s intimate photographic work in one of her earliest solo exhibitions. Published in conjunction with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, this quiet yet powerful volume reflects Smith’s lyrical eye deeply personal images of objects, relics, and scenes that resonate with the same intensity as her writing and music.

Shot primarily with a vintage Polaroid Land 250 camera, the photographs in Camera Solo offer meditations on time, creativity, and the sacredness of everyday things: Rimbaud’s grave, Frida Kahlo’s corset, a simple bed, a pair of shoes. Each frame reads like a whispered poem.

More than a photography book, this is a piece of Smith’s inner world an archive of reverence, silence, and artistic inheritance. A must for fans of her work across disciplines, and for collectors of soulful, quiet image-making.