# Sleeping by the Mississippi Special Edition

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $1,505.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
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- **GTIN:** 978-1-910164-89-1-SE
- **Availability:** Out of stock

## Summary

Special edition photobook set featuring 'Sleeping by the Mississippi' by Alec Soth, including a signed book housed in a reddish-brown slipcase with a signed and numbered print.

## Description

Sleeping by the Mississippi by 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 editions, and established him as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice. This MACK edition launches to coincide with the first exhibition in London dedicated to the series at Beetles+Huxley gallery, and includes two new photographs that were not included in the previous versions of the book. Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Sleeping by the Mississippi captures 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, 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 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.’ Like Robert Frank’s classic The Americans, Sleeping by the Mississippi 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. Thirteen 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. Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006), Broken Manual(2010) and Songbook (2015). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010), Media Space in London (2015) and FotoMuseum in Antwerp (2017). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Magnum Photos. Watch Alec Soth's Bookshelf Tour here.

## Variants

- **In stock:** 0 of 1

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Special Editions

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-910164-89-1SE
- **tags:** Alec Soth, transfer
- **author:** Alec Soth
- **format:** Limited edition of 150 copies, each comprising a signed copy of the first printing of the MACK edition of the book, housed in a slipcase with a signed and numbered print [signed and numbered in pencil on back, 1/150 - 150/150]
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Limited edition of 150 copies, each comprising a signed copy of the first printing of the MACK edition of the book, housed in a slipcase with a signed and numbered print [signed and numbered in pencil on back, 1/150 - 150/150]
- **publisher:** MACK
- **product type:** Special Editions
- **shopify handle:** sleeping-by-the-mississippi-special-edition-br-alec-soth
- **publication date:** Publication date: September 2017

## Enrichment

- **Type:** photobook set
- **Type Synonyms:** photography book, limited edition book set
- **Tags:** slipcase, signed print, hardcover, limited edition
- **Styles:** contemporary, minimalist
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Genre:** Arts, Documentary
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

## Images

- ![Image 1](https://cdn.octogen.ai/cc77c7cc68ea4af6e7f7a79650b2ea80/60b51d981606f86ef23c7504535670ae.jpeg)

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