SIGNED by Alec Soth, inscribed "To T----, Dream Big!!! "Stated First Edition, 2004. 2nd Printing with Charles on the front cover. Minor wear on boards, bumping on edges, scuffing on corners, light scratching / rubbing, crease mark on top left corner of rear board. Binding is tight. Pages are unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Sleeping by the Mississippi
Publisher: Steidl, Germany
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3865210074
ISBN 13: 9783865210074
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 2nd Printing
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.

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