alec soth::sleeping by the mississippi

Via we make money not art, this collection of photographs, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi, caught my eye:

[images from soth's website]

More:
::Watch an interview with Alec Soth by Minnesota Public Radio
::No post related to the Mississippi is complete without a link to (a) Pruned's series "Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River" and (b) the 1944 Fisk report by the same name to which the Pruned series refers.