Sleeping by the Mississippi-SIGNED FIRST

Alec Soth

ISBN 10: 3865210074 / ISBN 13: 9783865210074

Published by Steidl, 2004

About this Item

SOTH, ALEC: Sleeping by the Mississippi Alec Soth Steidl 2004 HB ISBN 3865210074 True First Edition, first printing, with yellow pictorial cloth covered boards, not the edition with photo of ?Charles, Vasa, Mn.? on cover. no dust jacket as published. AS NEW SIGNED and dated by author ?Alec Soth St. Paul MN September 2005? on title page, not incidentally, on the banks of the Mississippi. Signed on 9/23/05. Photo of the author signing is available. Cited in Parr & Badger?s ?The Photobook: A History Vol. II page 50: ??Soth hints at tales of marginal and disregarded lives, which give both consequence and dignity to their subjects. Indeed, it may be that his most significant contribution will be as a portrait-maker. Sleeping by the Mississippi is a poetic and dark book, full of quiet, lyrical and poignant pictures that touch us more deeply with every viewing.? One of the most important photo books of the past two decades. No bumps, no other marks other than signing, no chips, no tears, no soiling.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sleeping by the Mississippi-SIGNED FIRST
• Publisher: Steidl
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865210074
• ISBN 13: 9783865210074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1116 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Signed
  • Photography-Portraiture

About this title

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.