何藩語錄：…【大家記著非萬不要拋棄舊底片。因為它們可能是一個寶藏來的。因為今天你在底片上看不到的東西，十年後因為成長了，人生哲學改變後你可能對同一影像有新的看法。所以我覺得正方形的菲林格式對我的創作非常有用、大家一定要保留所有的底片。】 （原英文訪問，Bobby Lee翻譯）

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

By way of follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph "Sleeping by the Mississippi," Alec Soth turns his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. And as with his photographs of the Mississippi, these images are less about natural wonder than human desire. "I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers," says Soth, "the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion." The subject may be hot, but the pictures are quiet, the rigorously composed and richly detailed products of a large-format 8x10 camera. Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls, Soth edited the results of his labors down to a tight and surprising album. He depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots, pawnshop wedding rings and love letters from the subjects he photographed. We read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. Oscar Wilde wrote, "The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life." Niagara brings viewers both the passion and the disappointment--a remarkable portrayal of modern love and its aftermath.

超絶的ゼラチンシルバープリントがあらわす詩情あふれる世界観により 欧米の美術界で高い評価を得る写真家・山本昌男。 木の根、波のうねり、自然のもたらす美に目を研ぎ澄ませ、セピア調、あるいは白黒に跡をとどめる。 穏やかだが容易には到達できない、永遠の現在、時空を超えた静止がそこにある。 自身が厳選した代表作94点を収録。 国際共同出版として刊行。日本語版