Lost in Publications (“The Last Days of W.” came out as a self-published...)

“The Last Days of W.” came out as a self-published newspaper in 2008, which assembles 36 photographs, made over the last eight years, when George W. Bush was president. Despite a run of 6,000 copies, it’s hard to still find one. For more details you can read the interview “Prescience and Poetry – James Miller with Alec Soth”.

“The Last Days of W.”, LBM 2008 © Alec Soth (pictures via: photoeye.com)

“Henri Cartier-Bresson famously said, “The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks.” But I don’t think the world would have been a better place if these photographers had headed off to a war zone. The question is whether you can be a political photographer while you photograph rocks. My pictures don’t have a specific social commentary but I think they have social and political meaning.” - Alec Soth

“Now the ranch is quiet,

Brush cleared,

Fields burnt,

Almost bored.

These are the last days of W.”

- Lester B. Morrison

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