Soth, Alec

Last Days of W [NICE COPY]

Alec Soth LBM, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Newspaper format. Alec Soth / Little Brown Mushroom, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2008. Soft cover. First edition, first printing. Unbound newsprint (no dust jacket as issued). 48 pages with 36 four-color images. 16-3/8 x 12 inches. Out of print. CONDITION: Very Good; a complete copy with visible age toning to covers and all pages.

Soth's "The Last Days of W" features photographs that have been taken in North America over the last decade offering, according to Soth: "a panoramic look at a country exhausted by its catastrophic leadership." by focusing on what the photographer sees as the deeper social crises created by George Bush's presidency. In this work Soth focuses his lens on both rural and urban society under Bush's presidency: West Point, Texas, Detroit, California, Alaska, West Virginia and the artist's home in Minnesota. The [images] reflect the scope of the stories that have captured Soth's imagination during President Bush's two terms in office: stories about mothers of Marines serving in Iraq, religion in the American workplace, the biggest landfill in America and the mortgage crisis in Stockton, California. As Soth states: "In assembling this collection of pictures I've made over the last eight years, I guess I'm not really trying to accomplish much at all. But as President Bush once said, 'One of the great things about books is, sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." Very good. Item #2738
ISBN: 8447105989

Price: $125.00