{"product_id":"alec-soth-sleeping-by-the-mississippi","title":"Alec Soth - Sleeping by the Mississippi","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte remove-empty-space\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleeping by the Mississippi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eby Alec Soth is one of the defining publications in the photobook era. First published by Steidl in 2004, it was Soth’s first book, sold through three print runs, and established him as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice. This is the second printing of the MACK edition and includes two new photographs that were not included in the Steidl versions of the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleeping by the Mississippi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecaptures America’s iconic yet oft-neglected ‘third coast’. Soth’s richly descriptive, large-format colour photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleeping by the Mississippi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eelicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie. ‘In the book’s 46 ruthlessly edited pictures’, writes Anne Wilkes Tucker in the original essay published in the book, ‘Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLike Robert Frank’s classic \u003cem\u003eThe Americans\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleeping by the Mississippi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e merges a documentary style with 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. \u003c\/span\u003eSixteen\u003cspan\u003e years since the book was first published, the artist’s lyrical view has undoubtedly acquired a nuanced significance – one in which hope, fear, desire and regret coalesce in the evocative journey along this mythic river.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58407441498376,"sku":"MACBUSLEEPINGBY","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/5604\/7026\/files\/cover34_f1d67932-948d-44a2-a05e-b389538ef0d2.webp?v=1786459684","url":"https:\/\/khrome.de\/en\/products\/alec-soth-sleeping-by-the-mississippi","provider":"Khrome","version":"1.0","type":"link"}