Alec Soth–on Influence, Summer Nights, and Allen Ginsberg

Alec Soth pays artistic homage to Robert Adams’s Summer Nights in a video created for Aperture Remix, an exhibition at Aperture Gallery.

via Aperture Foundation NY: http://www.aperture.org/2012/11/alec-soth-summer-nights-at-the-dollar-tree/

A few years ago I became really frustrated with photography. In order to continue working, I felt like I needed to take apart my process and to examine things before putting them all back together. One of the things I did was make re-creations of other people’s photographs