Niagara

About this book

"In the follow-up to his ... monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turns his eye to ... Niagara Falls ... Soth's pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire ... Using a large-format 8x10 camera, the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed. Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls ... Soth depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawn shop wedding rings. Throughout the book, Soth also includes a number of love letters from the subjects he photographed. We read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide"--Http://www.steidlville.com.