Following on from the best-selling box set Gathered Leaves, published to accompany Alec Soth's traveling exhibition that opened in London in 2015, this unique publication brings together five of Soth's major books in their entirety in a single, compact and densely detailed volume. Across more than 700 pages of newsprint, Soth updates and reinvents the original version of Gathered Leaves by reproducing each spread of these five books with detailed annotations in the form of notes, text excerpts, and additional photographs. This new roadmap through Soth's work also includes a new introduction by the artist. Soth's meteoric rise to international acclaim began with his first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), an elegiac road trip along the 'third coast' of the United States, which has since been sold through in numerous printings and is widely recognized as a classic. The success of his subsequent volumes Niagara (2006), Broken Manual (2010) and Songbook (2015) elaborated on Soth's lyrical yet unflinching approach and reinforced his position as a master of the book form. His most recent work, A Pound of Pictures (2022), brings a new and poetic perspective to the idiosyncrasies of American life and the practice of image-making, once again approached through the now distinctive road trip format of Soth. This publication accompanies a solo exhibition at the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung in Munich, May 2022 and at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama, Japan, June 2022.
Paperback with fold-out map cover Printed on newspaper
21.5 x 26cm
720 pages
