Chromogenic print, printed 2004, signed, titled, dated and editioned 12/15 in black ink verso, 40.5 x 50.5cm (15 7/8 x 19 7/8in) Literature: Alec Soth, Sleeping by the Mississippi , 2004, Soth made the photographs that comprise his best-known book Sleeping by the Mississippi as he travelled along the river from Minnesota to Louisiana. This photograph of Charles Lindbergh's boyhood bed is referred to by Soth as being thematically among the most important pictures in the series. He opened the book with a quote by Lindbergh describing the twenty-second hour of his transatlantic flight in The Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota and in his last public address he recalled seeing a biplane fly over the Mississippi, a frail, complicated structure… I imagined myself with wings… soaring through the air from one river bank to the other. Beds and mattresses feature throughout the series; Soth describes them as being like Lindbergh s plane and Huck s raft… vehicles for dreaming.