Tag: Alec Soth

  • Alec Soth Interview – Part 2

    Alec Soth Interview – Part 2 – A Photo Editor [Part 1 is here] by Jonathan Blaustein Jonathan Blaustein: You’ve got a publishing company, LBM, that you started in 2008. Is that right? Alec Soth: Correct. JB: It’s based in Minneapolis. You built a team of collaborators, and a print studio. How did tha via…

  • Alec Soth Interview – Part 1

    Alec Soth Interview – Part 1 – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Jonathan Blaustein: When did you first start taking photographs? When did it all begin? Alec Soth: In high school, I had this experience that a lot of people have. I had a great teacher that woke me up. In that case, he…

  • Soth

    Soth

    Soth A week afterward Alec Soth’s lecture last Friday is still reverberating in my head. I’d been told beforehand that he never gives the same t… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/04/soth.html A week afterward Alec Soth’s lecture last Friday is still reverberating in my head. I’d been told beforehand that he never gives the same talk twice, that…

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

    Alec Soth on Wandering, Storytelling and Robert Adams vs. Weegee | PDNPulse 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:…

  • Daylight Digital launches with new work by Alec Soth

    Link: Daylight Digital launches with new work by Alec Soth | dvafoto an iPad magazine called Daylight Digital. Published twice a month at $2.99 a month

  • The Daily Edit The New York Times: Alec Soth

    The Daily Edit The New York Times: Alec Soth – A Photo Editor 2.8.13 Design Director: Arem Duplessis Director of Photography: Kathy Ryan Art Director: Gail Bichler Deputy Art Director: Caleb Bennett Deputy Photo Editor: Joanna Milter Photo Editors: Stacey Baker, Clinton Cargill, Amy Kellner Designers: Sara Cwynar, R via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/02/08/the-daily-edit-the-new-york-times-alec-soth/ Honkey…

  • Alec Soth’s Great Plains Dispatch

    Link: Alec Soth’s Great Plains Dispatch – NYTimes.com I used to need solitude in the car. All of my early work was made while driving alone. When I worked with writers or assistants, I felt self-conscious. But over the years, a lot of that has dropped away. Lately I prefer having other people in the…

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

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

    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…

  • Conscientious Extended

    Link: Conscientious Extended | How to tell a story with pictures We might as well admit now that photographs don’t tell stories the way words do it. Words tell stories very, very slowly. You need to read them one at a time, and the story then slowly builds. A photograph, in contrast, is not the…

  • Looking For Love in 90′s by Alec Soth

    Looking For Love in 90′s by Alec Soth

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/12/looking-for-love-in-90s-by-alec-soth/#1 Alec Soth’s newest book Looking for Love, 1996 is, in its way, about both—the search for love guided by the heart and the search of love guided by the eye.

  • It is a Film About Men, Alec Soth, America and the Desire to Disappear

    It is a Film About Men, Alec Soth, America and the Desire to Disappear

    Trailer ‘Somewhere To Disappear’ Please Join us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Somewhere-to-Disappear/148561295180713 Take a road trip adventure across America with renowned photographer… via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/23007373

  • Magnum Photos Announces 3 Nominees

    Magnum Photos Announces 3 Nominees | PDNPulse Members of Magnum Photos held their annual general meeting this week at the Rencontres D’Arles photo festival in France, and selected three new nominees for the photo collective. The three are varied not only in their experience but in the kind of work th via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/07/magnum-photos-announces-3-nominees.html The…

  • Moving forward, looking back

    Moving forward, looking back

    Moving forward, looking back A recent post by Blake Andrews on dead photoblogs has me thinking a lot about life online and off. From 2006 to 2007, I poured a lot of energy into my blog. On my first post, I wrote that I was ‘hu… via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/moving-forward-looking-back/ And one commenter,…

  • TIME’s Best of 2011: The Photobooks We Loved

    TIME’s Best of 2011: The Photobooks We Loved

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/29/the-photo-books-we-loved-in-2011-2/#1 Here LightBox spotlights some of the best photobooks of the year as chosen by a group of photographers and photography experts from around around the world…. and of course a few from the photo editors of TIME.  From the selection one…

  • Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth

    Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth

    Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth While reviewing my favorite photobooks of the year, I noticed that numerous selections could be classified as crime stories. So in creating this year’s list, I thought it would be an entertaining e… via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/top-20/ While reviewing my favorite photobooks of the year,…

  • photo-eye | A Closer Look — Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars)

    photo-eye | A Closer Look — Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars)

    A Closer Look — Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars) from Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars) Issue two of Alec Soth’s Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars) was a challenge… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/06/closer-look-lonely-boy-mag-no-2-boys.html Issue two of Alec Soth’s Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their…

  • Photographer #322: Alec Soth

    Photographer #322: Alec Soth

    Photographer #322: Alec Soth Alec Soth, 1969, USA, received a BA at the Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville in 1992. In July 2011 his book Broken Manual will be release… Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/06/photographer-322-alec-soth.html Alec Soth, 1969, USA, received a BA at the Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville in 1992. In July 2011 his book Broken Manual…

  • Postcards From America: Five Photographers, a Writer, Two Weeks and a Bus

    Postcards From America: Five Photographers, a Writer, Two Weeks and a Bus

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/11/postcards-from-america-five-photographers-a-writer-two-weeks-and-a-bus/#1 Magnum Photographers Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Mikhael Subotsky, and writer Ginger Strand are a bunch of friends going on a homespun adventure; a two week road trip, from May 11-26, across America. Rather than a super group on…

  • Postcards From America

    Postcards From America

    I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about the new Magnum project, Postcards From America. Th

  • Rockford's Group Portrait, in Five Days: Alec Soth Shoots for Times Magazine – NYTimes.com

    A call went out to Alec Soth, 41, a member of Magnum Photos. He was in western Kansas at the time. Knowing in advance that it would be a nerve-racking exercise, Mr. Soth took on the assignment and drove to Rockford. He arrived on Tuesday, Jan. 4, to work with Michael Catano, an audio reporter,…