Lost in Publications (“Niagara” aka “The Penis Project”, is...)

“Niagara” aka “The Penis Project”, is an exploration of love and relationships. Working over two years on the American and Canadian sides of the Niagara Falls, Alec Soth encourages and undermines modern myths, which focuses on love, sexuality and the promise of happiness and satisfaction.

“Niagara”, was published by Steidl in 2006 and is still available at photo-eye. Also worth a read is Colin Pantall’s book review.

To see the great photo essay, produced by Magnum in Motion, just click on the picture above.

“I thought of the project as being like a love song—a sad love song—and sort of emotional, hitting on certain cliches, but hopefully being moving in a way. I especially thought about Roy Orbison and these kind of crashing falsettos that he always builds to at the end of the song. I think the drama of that is reflective in the falls too.” - Alec Soth (“After the Falls” on MPRnews)

“The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.” - Oscar Wilde

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