Q & A with Alec Soth

Alec Soth is a photographer based in St. Paul, MN. • BA: You wrote recently on the relationship between popularity and quality….

Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/05/q-with-alec-soth.html

When I did Sleeping by the Mississippi, I gave away contact prints of Charles (the guy with the airplanes) never thinking it would be popular or sell. The fact that it became my most known image delights me. One curious thing about that picture is that I made about five exposures. I’m pretty certain that if I’d chosen another exposure it wouldn’t have been my signature image.