Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi (First Edition) [SIGNED]

SOTH, Alec, TUCKER, Anne W., HAMPL, Patricia

ISBN 10: 3865210074 / ISBN 13: 9783865210074

Published by Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany, 2004

About this Item

First edition, first printing (this is not the second printing with the photograph "Charles, Vasa, Minnesota" on the cover). Boldly signed in black ink on the title page by Soth. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated cloth-covered boards with debossed title stamped in black on front cover and stamped in white on spine, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Alec Soth. Essays by Patricia Hampl and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Designed by Steidl Design. Includes selected notes to the photographs and brief biographies of the contributors. Unpaginated, with 48 four-color plates (printed on one side of sheets), beautifully printed on heavy paper by Steidl. 11 x 11-1/2 inches. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).]. Near Fine (corners of boards bumped, not affecting the text block, else Fine). From the publisher: "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, Sleeping by the Mississippi 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." Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi (First Edition) [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865210074
• ISBN 13: 9783865210074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Portraiture
  • American South
  • Signed Books
  • American Color
  • Rare Acquisitions

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Synopsis

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, Sleeping by the Mississippi 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.

About the Author

Alec Soth was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1969, where he still lives, works and teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has received fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His photographs are in major public and private collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Walker Art Center.