Gathered Leaves Annotated

Following on from the bestselling box set Gathered Leaves, published to accompany Alec Soths touring exhibition which opened in London in 2015, this unique publication brings together five of Soths major books in their entirety in a single, compact, and densely detailed volume. Across more than 700 pages of newsprint, Soth updates and reimagines the original version of Gathered Leaves by reproducing every spread from these five books with detailed annotations in the form of notes, text extracts, and additional photographs. This new roadmap through Soths oeuvre also includes a new introduction by the artist. Soths meteoric rise to international acclaim began with his first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), an elegiac road trip down the third coast of the United States, which has since has sold through numerous print runs and is widely acknowledged as a classic. The success of his subsequent volumes Niagara (2006), Broken Manual (2010), and Songbook (2015) elaborated Soths lyrical but 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, poetic perspective to the idiosyncrasies of American life and the practice of image-making, broached once again through Soths now-distinctive road trip format. See more