Sleeping by the Mississippi - Alec Soth

Para aqueles que falharam a 1ª e 2ª edição, e que não querem pagar 300€, a Steidl está a fazer uma nova. Pode ser comprado por 48€.

Quem preferir esperar e poupar uns trocos, pode aguardar que esteja disponível no bookdepository.co.uk. Os portes são gratuitos e normalmente o preço é mais baixo que na Steidl ou Amazon.

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"In short, the trip is an encounter with fame, sex and salvation, three of the great American passions, and with landscapes and interiors, equally ruined and haunted. The final image in Mr. Soth's book, of a metal bed frame lying half-submerged in Mississippi River swamp weeds, adorned by a few white flowers, is the perfect coda to the series: a kind of dream-memorial to a strange, sad tale persuasively told." Holland Cotter, The New York Times 2004

"Alec Soth has a wonderful and terrifying eye. We’ve all seen gritty documentary photography, but no one has ever seen anything like his work! It’s gritty for sure, but it’s beautiful–really beautiful. With most documentary photography, you look at it, sigh, and pass on, but Soth’s work keeps pulling you back to look again because he composes with the skill of the greatest of photographic artists." John Wood, Editor 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography 2004

"What Soth found along the Mississippi was a full range of fugitive atmospheres and human eccentricities. The mood in his pictures can be drowsy, lonely, lyrical and sometimes just a bit surreal...like a painting, or at least a good one, Soth's photographs have layered meanings."Richard Lacayo, TIME Magazine 2004