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Just Kids
Patti Smith · Memoir · 2010 · Ecco
About the book
Two young artists at the Chelsea Hotel in the 1960s and 70s; a witness to photography's history rather than a photographer's own.
Publication
- Author
- Patti Smith
- Category
- Memoir
- Original title
- Just Kids
- Original language
- English
- First edition
- 2010, Ecco, New York
- Later editions and translations
- Won the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Not a photographer's autobiography: the author is a poet and musician, writing about her youth with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
- Date precision
- Sources give the year only
Sources
Written by the FilmAnalysis editors; facts follow the sources above, the reading of the pictures is ours.