Niagara – Special Edition with Print Edition:Signed

Niagara – Special Edition with Print Edition:SignedIn the follow up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soths 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. Working over the

along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock – the first Americans to join the young photo agency

his images of the town are intertwined with excerpts and facsimiles from a 1919 archaeological discovery also called ‘the Book of Veles’ — a cryptic collection of 40 wooden boards discovered in Russia by an army officer

he started working as a photojournalist

Washington

(They used to live in Iguala

producing reportage all over the world

he uncovered a Japan that is little-known to Westerners and captured it in his own inimitable photographic style

make me search for closeness

The reader discovers the voices of the Kurds that contest the Western representations of them

unintentionally

doing everything according to how the Americans see things

a city becomes attractive at night