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ALEC SOTH: SLEEPING BY THE MISSISSIPPI
(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec, Patricia Hampl & Anne Wilkes Tucker. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2004. First Edition, Second Printing. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (120pp), 46 color illustrations + covers. Designed by Steidl Design. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi" captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast". Soth's richly descriptive, large-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, "Sleeping by the Mississippi" elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie. "In the book's 46 ruthlessly edited pictures," writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex". Like Robert Frank's classic "The Americans", it merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust". A brand new, most handsome example of the second Steidl printing featuring the image "Charles, Vasa, Minnesota" on the front cover (the first from the same year is cited on page 50 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II" and page 58 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter"). PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-86521-007-4 Inventory Number: 024558