I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating - Special Edition

PRINT B

Limited edition of 150 copies, divided into 2 sets of 150, each comprising a signed first edition of the book housed in a slipcase with one of two c-type prints [signed and numbered 1/150 - 150/150].

Embossed linen hardback
30 x 33.5cm
Interview with Alec Soth by Hanya Yanagihara

Publication date: March 2019
 

 

Taking its name from a line in Wallace Stevens’ short poem “The Gray Room,” Alec Soth’s latest book is a lyrical exploration of intimacy. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren’t about any particular place or population. Whether made in Odessa or his hometown of Minneapolis, Soth’s new book is fundamentally about intimate encounters in private rooms.

“After the publication of my last book about social life in America, Songbook, and a retrospective of my four, large-scale American projects, Gathered Leaves, I went through a long period of rethinking my creative process. For over a year I stopped travelling and photographing people. I barely took any pictures at all.

When I returned to photography, I wanted to strip the medium down to its primary elements. Rather than trying to make some sort of epic narrative about America, I wanted to simply spend time looking at other people and, hopefully, briefly glimpse their interior life.