Opening on March 3, the singer and memoirist Patti Smith will present “Eighteen Stations,” a new series of photographs at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York City. The small, black and white images are connected to her latest book, “M Train” (2015), and are featured within its pages, a visual diary that occasionally accompanies the text. The book, a languorous and bizarre series of digressions patched together by more interesting documentary snapshots of Smith’s life with her husband, former MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, was the follow-up to the much ballyhooed “Just Kids” (2010), her nostalgic reverie about her friendship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.“Eighteen Stations,” a reference to the stations of the cross, features photographs Smith took of her favorite chair in the now-shuttered Cafe ’Ino in the West Village of Manhattan, where she would often visit; the empty landscape of Rockaway Beach, where she bought a home in 2012, just prior to Hurricane Sandy; and camera-eye snapshots from her various travels and wanderings.Smith’s first exhibition of photography was a show with Mapplethorpe, called “New York Film and Stills” in June of 1978 at the Robert Miller Gallery. Over the last two decades, she has shown multiple series of photographs at the gallery — including solo shows “Veil” (2009) and “A Pythagorean Traveler” (2006) — which has represented her for almost 40 years. A film adaptation of “Just Kids,” starring Zosia Mamet as Smith and the British actor Matt Smith as Mapplethorpe, was recently announced.
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