Niagara
by Alec Soth
Photographs: Alec Soth
104 pages
Pictures: 44 colour plates
Year: September 2018
ISBN: 978-1-912339-25
Price: 49.50 €
Comments: 27.5 cm x 32 cm. Faux leather bound hardback with tipped in images
In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soth’s pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. “I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers,” says Soth, “the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion.” Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls using a large-format 8x10 camera, the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed. Soth depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawn shop wedding rings. Throughout the book, Soth has interspersed a number of love letters from the subjects he photographed. We read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. Oscar Wilde wrote of the Falls, “The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.” In Soth’s Niagara, we see both the passion and the disappointment. His pictures are a remarkable portrayal of modern love and it’s aftermath.
Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006) Broken Manual (2010) and Songbook (2015). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010) and Media Space in London (2015). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, LOOCK Galerie in Berlin and is a member of Magnum Photos.
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Niagara
by Alec Soth
Photographs: Alec Soth
104 pages
Pictures: 44 colour plates
Year: September 2018
ISBN: 978-1-912339-25
Price: 49.50 €
Comments: 27.5 cm x 32 cm. Faux leather bound hardback with tipped in images
In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soth’s pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. “I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers,” says Soth, “the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion.” Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls using a large-format 8x10 camera, the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed. Soth depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawn shop wedding rings. Throughout the book, Soth has interspersed a number of love letters from the subjects he photographed. We read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. Oscar Wilde wrote of the Falls, “The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.” In Soth’s Niagara, we see both the passion and the disappointment. His pictures are a remarkable portrayal of modern love and it’s aftermath.
Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006) Broken Manual (2010) and Songbook (2015). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010) and Media Space in London (2015). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, LOOCK Galerie in Berlin and is a member of Magnum Photos.
More books by Alec Soth
-
Looking for Love 1996
by Alec Soth
sold out -
ohio
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Brighton Picture Hunt
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Song Book (first edition - last copy)
by Alec Soth
Euro 250 -
Song Book
by Alec Soth
Euro 55 -
One Picture Book 88 : Bogotá Funsaver (signed + print)
by Alec Soth
Euro 99 -
Gathered Leaves (signed - last copies)
by Alec Soth
Euro 95 -
Gathered Leaves Postcards
by Alec Soth
Euro 22 -
TEXAS TRIANGLE
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Sleeping by the Mississippi (signed - limited availability)
by Alec Soth
Euro 59.50 -
Gathered Leaves (signed - review copy)
by Alec Soth
sold out -
I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating (signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 75 -
I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating
by Alec Soth
Euro 60.50 -
Sleeping by the Mississippi
by Alec Soth
Euro 49.50
A collector's choice by josefchladek.com
Niagara
by Alec Soth
Photographs: Alec Soth
104 pages
Pictures: 44 colour plates
Year: September 2018
ISBN: 978-1-912339-25
Price: 49.50 €
Comments: 27.5 cm x 32 cm. Faux leather bound hardback with tipped in images
In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soth’s pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. “I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers,” says Soth, “the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion.” Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls using a large-format 8x10 camera, the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed. Soth depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawn shop wedding rings. Throughout the book, Soth has interspersed a number of love letters from the subjects he photographed. We read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. Oscar Wilde wrote of the Falls, “The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.” In Soth’s Niagara, we see both the passion and the disappointment. His pictures are a remarkable portrayal of modern love and it’s aftermath.
Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006) Broken Manual (2010) and Songbook (2015). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010) and Media Space in London (2015). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, LOOCK Galerie in Berlin and is a member of Magnum Photos.
More books by Alec Soth
-
Looking for Love 1996
by Alec Soth
sold out -
ohio
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Brighton Picture Hunt
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Song Book (first edition - last copy)
by Alec Soth
Euro 250 -
Song Book
by Alec Soth
Euro 55 -
One Picture Book 88 : Bogotá Funsaver (signed + print)
by Alec Soth
Euro 99 -
Gathered Leaves (signed - last copies)
by Alec Soth
Euro 95 -
Gathered Leaves Postcards
by Alec Soth
Euro 22 -
TEXAS TRIANGLE
by Alec Soth
sold out -
Sleeping by the Mississippi (signed - limited availability)
by Alec Soth
Euro 59.50 -
Gathered Leaves (signed - review copy)
by Alec Soth
sold out -
I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating (signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 75 -
I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating
by Alec Soth
Euro 60.50 -
Sleeping by the Mississippi
by Alec Soth
Euro 49.50
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