NIAGARA

Alec Soth
NIAGARA

Photographs: Alec Soth

Text: Philip Brookman and Richard Ford

Publisher: Steidl

104 pages

Year: 2008

Price: 90 €

Comments: Hardcover with tipped-in photograph, 32,5 x 28 cm, First edition, color photographs. Text in English. In very good condition, with a few minor signs of wear on the back cover.

In this, the follow-up to Alec Soth’s critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Soth turns his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. But, as with his photos of the Mississippi, Soth’s pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. Soth depicts newlyweds, naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawnshop wedding rings alongside love letters from his subjects: we read of teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. “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.”

(From the publisher)