“During these last days of the administration, what is the point of protest, satire or any other sort of rabble rousing? In assembling this collection of pictures I’ve made over the last eight years, I guess I’m not really trying to accomplish much at all. But as President Bush once said, ‘One of the great things about books is, sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.’ ” — Alec Soth

Through The Last Days of W, Soth looks inward at an uncertain nation and its bewildered people.