Gathered Leaves AnnotatedFollowing 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

But it gradually became clear that he had to show the negatives for the imprint of the life that once was

In the mornings the birds wake

the walls of which are ever more illusory… to the point at which we might merge with them… The meaning that I am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge

During this year Waplington spent many hours walking the streets of LA

This book includes the Brooklyn work

This world doesn’t much nurture silence

he retells it through historically grounded images that challenge viewers to go beyond seeing and imagine lived experiences

a Mexican-American street gang based in East Los Angeles

Now and then

Norman Snyder

all seem to preclude any way out of the labyrinth

The book also includes an introductory text by Andre D