in Paris
“when I’m traveling with my camera, I’ll often take pictures of, you know, Keats’s bed, Shelley’s grave or Victor Hugo’s desk. It has something of them. If I’m taking a picture of Brancusi’s grave, I know that there’s something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there’s something beautiful about that.”
Pope Benedict XV’s slippers / a replica of William Blake’s life mask
Roberto Bolaño’s chair / Arthur Rimbaud’s utensils
Virginia Woolf’s bed / Susan Sontag’s grave in Montparnasse Cemetery
Constantin Brancusi’s grave / Robert Mapplethorpe’s slippers
“I am an American artist and I have no guilt”
- Patti Smith, Babelogue 1978
read the full article at T magazine
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