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Item Details
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ALEC SOTH
NIAGARA |
| By: |
Alec Soth, Philip Brookman, Richard Ford |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£35.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3865212336 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783865212337 |
| Publisher: |
STEIDL PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
8 May, 2006 |
| Pages: |
104 |
| Description: |
Focuses on an iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. This title depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawn shop wedding rings. It includes a number of love letters from the subjects he photographed. In it, we read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. |
| Synopsis: |
In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph "Sleeping by the Mississippi", Alec Soth turns his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. But, 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." While the subject may be hot, these are quiet pictures. Using a large-format 8X10 camera, the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed. Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls, the editing is tight and surprising. Soth depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawn shop wedding rings. Throughout the book, Soth also includes 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. |
| Illustrations: |
50 colour plates |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
Steidl Verlag |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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