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Dog Days Bogota | 
 enlarge | Creator: Alec Soth
Publisher: Steidl
Category: Book
Buy New: $59.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 93609
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 60
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 3865214517
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865214515
ASIN: 3865214517
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Product Description
After completing the work for his first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi, in 2002, Alec Soth traveled with his wife to Bogota, Colombia, to adopt a baby girl. The baby's birth mother had given the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems for their daughter. "I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity," she wrote. "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things." While the courts processed the adoption paperwork, and with these words as a mission statement, Soth set about making his own book for his daughter. Soth writes, "In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I've described some of the beauty in this hard place." This beauty makes itself apparent through ramshackle architecture, the companionship of animals and the perseverance of the human spirit. But Soth's photographs also transcend the simple description of beauty, roaming through a cast of strays, tough souls and small hints of hope.
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Amazing images! March 24, 2008
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I am so clearly biased, as my wife and i adopted a baby girl from Bogota, Colombia in February of 2007. These images were part of our journey, adn speak to us on a very personal level. But, having shared the book with many non-adoptive friends and aquaintences, I know they speak to them as as well.
An amazing project I highly recommend!
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