ALEC SOTH | Sleeping by the Mississippi - Signed first printing

True first edition and first printing signed by Alec Soth on the title page.  Published by Steidl in 2004.

Very minimal toning at page edges. Slight additional thickness of bottom of spine appears to be original and from production of the book. Else clean and crisp and like-new.

Included in The Photobook: A History by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. (page 50)

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.