Sleeping by the Mississippi
Soth, AlecSonderedition 2017; 120 Seiten, zahlr. Fotografien, Sprache: Englisch; gebunden mit Poster
Mack
Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi" captures Americas 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 books 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 Soths book exactly within the tradition of Walker Evans "American Photographs" and Robert Franks "The Americans". This MACK edition includes two photographs not published in the prior versions, and a fold-out poster.