Alec Soth on Wandering, Storytelling and Robert Adams vs. Weegee

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Last week at the Portland Art Museum as part of the 2013 Photolucida festivities, Alec Soth gave a lecture titled “From Here to There: Searching for Narrative in Photography.” The talk could have been titled “Searching for Narrative in Photography Lecture

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/04/alec-soth-on-wandering-storytelling-and-robert-adams-vs-weegee.html

Prompted by the audience, Soth spoke about a period of time when he was sick of photography, because “the production of the thing got in the way of wandering.” Soth tried to find a cave to buy so he could disappear