Sleeping by the Mississippi [SIGNED - 2017 RARE LIMITED/SPECIAL SLIPCASED EDITION 1/150 WITH SIGNED PRINT - MINT]

Soth, Alec

Published by Mack, 2017

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SIGNED SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION 1/150 - Mack, 2017. Printed linen hardback housed in an embossed slipcase, with a signed and numbered print.Fourth Edition, Limited edition of only 150 signed and numbered copies (this being #8/150) issued with a signed and numbered print (#8/150). 120 pages with 48 colour plates. This MACK edition launches to coincide with the first exhibition in London dedicated to the series at Beetles+Huxley gallery, and includes two new photographs that were not included in the previous versions of the book. CONDITION: MINT (the set) in original parrafin wrapping; opened only for inspection. SIGNED. 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 describe an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, his book elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing and reverie. ?In the book?s forty-six ruthlessly edited pictures,? writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, ?Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex? The coherence of the project places Soth?s book exactly within the tradition of Walker Evans? American Photographs and Robert Frank?s The Americans.? Like Frank?s classic book, 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sleeping by the Mississippi [SIGNED - 2017 RARE LIMITED/SPECIAL SLIPCASED EDITION 1/150 WITH SIGNED PRINT - MINT]
• Publisher: Mack
• Publication Date: 2017
• Binding: Hardcover in slipcase
• Edition: Fourth Edition.
• Condition: New
• Signed: Signed
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