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Sleeping by the Mississippi
Alec Soth
Patricia Hampl
Anne Tucker
出版
Steidl
, 2004
主題
Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Photography / Individual Photographers / General
ISBN
3865210074
9783865210074
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HeRTAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.