Editing Patti Smith (section)

===Art and writings===
In 1994, Smith began devoting time to what she terms "pure photography", a method of capturing still objects without using a flash.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16624905|title=Patti Smith: The extended BBC interview|publisher=BBC|date=January 19, 2012|access-date=August 8, 2013|archive-date=May 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531034350/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16624905|url-status=live}}</ref>

From November 2006 to January 2007, an exhibition called 'Sur les Traces'<ref>{{cite web|title = Sur les Traces  | work = Trolley Gallery Books  | publisher = [[Trolley Gallery]]  | url = http://www.trolleybooks.com/exhibitionSingle.php?exhibId=37  | access-date = July 20, 2010 | archive-date = July 17, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110717104429/http://www.trolleybooks.com/exhibitionSingle.php?exhibId=37  | url-status = dead  }}</ref> at [[Trolley Gallery]], London, featured [[Instant film|polaroid]] prints taken by Smith and donated to Trolley to raise awareness and funds for the publication of ''Double Blind: Lebanon Conflict 2006,'' a book with photographs by [[Paolo Pellegrin]], a member of [[Magnum Photos]]. She also participated in the DVD commentary for ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters]]''.

From March 28 to June 22, 2008, the [[Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain]] in Paris hosted a major exhibition of the visual artwork of ''Land 250'', drawn from pieces created by Smith between 1967 and 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fondation.cartier.com/ |title=Patti Smith, Land 250 |access-date=February 13, 2008 |publisher=Fondation Cartier |year=2008 |archive-date=September 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917221146/http://fondation.cartier.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2009, she contributed the introduction to [[Jessica Lange]]'s book ''[[50 Photographs]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/jessica-lange-and-patti-smith-team-photo-book|title=Jessica Lange and Patti Smith Team Up|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|first=Joe|last=Pompeo|date=August 21, 2008|access-date=May 11, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220202707/http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/jessica-lange-and-patti-smith-team-photo-book|archive-date=February 20, 2011}}</ref>

In 2010, Smith's book ''[[Just Kids]]'', a memoir of her time in [[Manhattan]] in the 1970s and her relationship with [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], was published. The book won the [[National Book Award for Nonfiction]] later that year.<ref name="nba2010">[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2010 "National Book Awards – 2010"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028065329/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2010 |date=October 28, 2018 }}. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved February 26, 2012. (With acceptance speech, interview, and reading.)</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Carson|first=Tom|title=The Night Belongs to Us|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 29, 2010|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/books/review/Carson-t.html|access-date=February 10, 2010|archive-date=February 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205024650/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/books/review/Carson-t.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, a new edition of ''Just Kids'', including additional photographs and illustrations, was published. Smith also headlined a benefit concert headed by bandmate Tony Shanahan, for Court Tavern in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Jordan|first=Chris|title=Patti Smith, Bands Unite to Save the Court Tavern in New Brunswick|newspaper=[[Courier News (New Jersey)|Courier News]]|date=April 30, 2010|url=http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20100430/ENTERTAINMENT01/100426055/-1/newsfront/Patti-Smith-Co.-unite-to-save-the-Court|access-date=October 6, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614092109/http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20100430/ENTERTAINMENT01/100426055/-1/newsfront/Patti-Smith-Co.-unite-to-save-the-Court|archive-date=June 14, 2010}}</ref> Smith's set included "Gloria", "Because the Night", and "People Have the Power".

In 2011, Smith announced the first museum exhibition of her photography in the U.S., ''Camera Solo''. She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of [[Pope Celestine V]], which translates as "a room of one's own", and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography.<ref name="bbc.co.uk" /> The exhibition featured artifacts that were everyday items or places of significance to artists Smith admires, including [[Arthur Rimbaud|Rimbaud]], [[Charles Baudelaire]], [[John Keats]], and [[William Blake]]. In February 2012, she was a guest at the [[Sanremo Music Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.rockol.it/news-343603/Sanremo-2012--Marlene-Kuntz-e-Patti-Smith-vincono-il-premio-per-il-duetto | publisher = Rockol.it | access-date = February 2, 2018 | title = Sanremo 2012: Marlene Kuntz e Patti Smith vincono il premio per il duetto | date = February 17, 2012 | language = it | archive-date = July 17, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120717081105/http://www.rockol.it/news-343603/Sanremo-2012--Marlene-Kuntz-e-Patti-Smith-vincono-il-premio-per-il-duetto | url-status = live }}</ref>

Also in 2011, Smith was working on a crime novel set in London. "I've been working on a detective story that starts at the [[St Giles in the Fields]] church in London for the last two years", she told [[NME]], adding that she "loved detective stories" and was a fan of British fictional detective [[Sherlock Holmes]] and U.S. crime author [[Mickey Spillane]] in her youth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/patti-smith/54699|title=Patti Smith writing detective novel|work=NME|access-date=February 21, 2011|archive-date=January 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129151930/http://www.nme.com/news/patti-smith/54699?|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=/ TT Spektra|url=http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.537765-patti-smith-skriver-deckare|title=Patti Smith skriver deckare – Kultur & Nöje|language=sv|work=Göteborgs-Posten|date=February 17, 2011|access-date=February 21, 2011}}</ref>