Alec Soth - Niagara Edition:Unsigned

Alec Soth - Niagara Edition:UnsignedMACK 2021 In 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

»The Americans« remains as powerful and provocative as it was upon publication and continues to resonate with audiences today

The work conveys the artist’s personal testimony about life in Ukraine and how it is constantly reshaped under the destructive power of war

creating a Ruscha/Becher-esque repetitive ‘typology’ of the same view

The Other Side is her homage to the queens she’s loved

208 pages 170 duotone illustrations

The essays reflect this on a variety of levels: Janos Frecot’s examination of the changes in the urban space

Change was inevitable

and advertising with the everyday

Gael García Bernal

Katerina Angelopoulou (Greece) Tayisir Batniji (Palestine) Olgaç Bozalp (Turkey) Federico Clavarino (Italy/UK) Rä di Martino (Italy) Karim El Maktafi (Maroc/Italy) Maen Hammad (Palestine) Karim Kal (France/Algeria) Stelios Kallinikou (Cyprus) Yazan Khalili (Palestine) Irene Fenara (Italy) Bojan Mrđenović (Croatia) Bandia Ribeira (Spain) Sara Sadik (France) Federica Sasso (Italy) Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan (France)

these documents describe the building’s lived life

For months