Alec Soth wonders about photo he didn't sell

Image of a house on a frozen lake resembles cover of a book that has now been made into a prize-winning movie.

By claudepeck

June 30, 2010 — 3:10pm

Little Brown, according to Soth, wanted to crop the image and photoshop a young woman into the left foreground, like so:

Soth said no to that idea. Then, three years ago, he saw the book at a Barnes & Noble, with a cover that was similar, but modified. As in:

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