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davygibbs's review
5.0
Another wonderful book from Alec Soth, and one of the strongest photo books I've come across in a while from a narrative standpoint. Each portrait, each setting, each love letter gives you a glimpse of a story. You never get all of one story, but you get enough glimpses to start to wrap your mind around Soth's Niagara. Which is no place you want to be -- physically or emotionally -- but a place full of passion and history and love and loss all the same.
iantaylor's review
5.0
If there was a nice apartment and I have a decent job and you felt happy and thought there could be a nice history together, would you come home?
pearseanderson's review
2.0
Wasn't very happy with this photo book, in terms of photos selected, their context, and I guess the essays bookending it. One is from an awful, mean author named Richard Ford, and the other is from a critic who says that this photo book is like "going over the Niagara in a barrel." But it's not tho. It's so much more casual and quieter than that, def not as exciting. The last two pages of the book were the best part, which confused me: why not make the rest of the book have that collaged series of notes, explanations, and images? Hearing about Soth driving around feeling like a pervert and asking strangers weird things was hilarious and really opened up the book. I'm giving this like 5/10.