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Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth

 

Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As a member of Magnum Photos he travels a lot and gathers new themes for his projects exhibited around the world. He has a shrewd and very sensitive eye and he’s always alert to the unpredictable, nonstop strangeness of the world which we like in his mesmerising captures.

“I’ve been photographing along the Mississippi since I was in college. It runs right through my town and is an obvious path to follow. I began to think that the river itself could function as a metaphor for that kind of wandering. If you look at a map, the river doesn’t go strictly north to south. It carves this crazy path all over the place. That is really what I wanted to do…wander. Of course, this is a huge part of the mythology of the river; Huck Finn and all of that. One of the pictures I made was of Charles Lindbergh’s boyhood bed, on the porch of a house overlooking the river. It seemed so poignant to me. The river lures dreamers.

I learned that, once a thriving source of the American economy, the river is now a worn and faded place. But those that remain often make really creative and peculiar lives for themselves. Our vision of America is so shaped by television and movies. All we see are Hollywood starlets and New York cops. We sometimes forget that there are whole other lives being lived in the middle of America. And some of these lives are really inspiring.”

Photography: Alec Soth

 

ミシシッピー、数年前に100年以上昔に建てられた、まさにプランテーションという感じのでかい屋敷に、知人のディーラーと一緒にアンティークを買いにいきました。広い庭に、今は使われていないとてつも無く広い敷地を覚えています。

ちょっと上にある、KKKの発祥の地とされているテネシー州のプラスキに立ち寄る用事があった事も、西でも東でも無いディープな南部は独特の雰囲気です。

写真にある、大きな十字架も保守的な南部ならでは、フリーウェイを走っていると夜ライトアップされてます。

 

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