Alec Soth Gathered Leaves (box w/ 4 miniature books and 28 cards)

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Alec Soth Gathered Leaves (box w/ 4 miniature books and 28 cards)

Sale Price:$150.00 Original Price:$175.00

1st Edition.

Box: Embossed cardboard box with 4c printed paper cover and interior printed 1c. [228 mm x 223 mm] Postcards: 28 large format postcards printed one side with the images from the exhibition. With an essay by Aaron Schuman spread across the backs of the cards. One additional card printed with an introduction by Kate Bush, curator of the exhibition and Director of Media Space, London. Four mini facsimile books: Sleeping by the Mississippi [113 mm x 108 mm] Niagara [109 mm x 128 mm] Broken Manual [86 mm x 112 mm] Songbook [113 mm x 108 mm] 

Alec Soth's reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as books since 2004 as the structural basis for both a mid-career retrospective and an investigation of Soth's prescient understanding of the various and distinct applications of photography as a tool for storytelling across diverse media. The title of the exhibition comes from Walt Whitman's poem Song of Myself and references both the pages of his books gathered for consideration and the notion that his work is also a story about Soth himself. This catalogue is a special object, bringing together an essay by Aaron Schuman spread across 28 large format postcards, with mini facsimile versions of Soth's 4 books [3 of which are now out-of-print], all housed together in a luxurious printed and embossed clamshell box. 

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