Tag: Alec Soth

  • A Year of Quiet Contemplation Led to the Rebirth of Alec Soth’s Photography – The New York Times

    A Year of Quiet Contemplation Led to the Rebirth of Alec Soth’s Photography – The New York Times

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    A Year of Quiet Contemplation Led to the Rebirth of Alec Soth’s Photography After taking a break from photography, Alec Soth has returned to capture the quietness and lyricism of people residing in their own homes. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/lens/a-year-of-quiet-contemplation-led-to-the-rebirth-of-alec-soths-photography.html After taking a break from photography, Alec Soth has returned to capture the quietness and lyricism of…

  • Alec Soth’s reedition of Sleeping by the Mississippi – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/09/22/article/159966265/reedition-de-sleeping-by-the-mississipi-dalec-soth/”] Alec Soth’s reedition of Sleeping by the Mississippi – The Eye of Photography Sleeping by The Mississippi by Alec Soth is one of the defining publications in the photobook era. First published by Steidl in 2004, it was American photographer Alec Soth’s first book, sold through three editions, and established him as one…

  • Haunting Photos Show Intimate Scenes of Small-Town Life in America – VICE

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    Haunting Photos Show Intimate Scenes of Small-Town Life in America Photographers Adam Lach and Alec Soth share their work in our annual photo issue. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvp5k3/haunting-photos-show-intimate-scenes-of-small-town-life-in-america-v24n6 For our annual photo issue we reached out to 16 up-and-coming photographers and asked them which photographer inspired them to pursue the medium. Then we approached their “idols”…

  • Musée Magazine : Interview with Alex Soth, Photographer of the social landscape – The Eye of Photography

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    Musée Magazine : Interview with Alex Soth, Photographer of the social landscape AS: That’s a tough one, and I love processing Szarkowski quotes. He also talked about how photography, on a mental level, is just pointing. It’s just pointing your finger, and saying, “look at that.” And when you point to something you’re not showing…

  • How Alec Soth Turned Awkwardness Into Creative Sucess | American Photo

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    How Alec Soth Turned Awkwardness Into Creative Sucess As for his MFA students who may be less concerned about creative freedom and more worried about a career, he advises: “First of all, it is hard. And I’ve had tons of missteps along the way,” he says. “That’s the thing about being creative. You come up…

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    Gathered Leaves by Alec Soth Alec Soth’s first major solo UK exhibition Gathered Leaves opens at Media Space in London on 6 October 2015 and runs until 28 March 2016.

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    New Orleans 10 Years After Katrina Alec Soth traveled to New Orleans to document the “city of water” 10 years after Hurricane Katrina.

  • Photographing New Orleans, A Decade After Katrina – The New Yorker

    Photographing New Orleans, A Decade After Katrina – The New Yorker

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    New Orleans, After the Aftermath A photographer captures suffering and renewal ten years after Katrina. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/katrina-photo-essay Alec Soth, a photographer who lives in Minneapolis and travels the Midwest and the South with the energy of a latter-day Walker Evans, did not join the artists who came to New Orleans a decade…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – video: Alec Soth + Stacey Baker: This is what enduring love looks like

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Alec Soth + Stacey Baker: This is what enduring love looks like Stacey Baker has always been obsessed with how couples meet. When she asked photographer Alec Soth to help her explore this topic, they found themselv… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/video-alec-soth-stacey-baker-this-is-what-enduring-love-looks-like Stacey Baker has always been obsessed with how couples meet. When she asked…

  • Alec Soth Offering Free “Winnebago Workshop” To Teen Artists

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    Alec Soth Offering Free “Winnebago Workshop” To Teen Artists | PDNPulse The photographer is offering teen artists a free opportunity to learn from him and his staff while they create a multimedia story. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/07/alec-soth-offering-free-winnebago-workshop-to-teen-artists.html Photographer Alec Soth and his Little Brown Mushroom (LBM) publishing imprint recently announced a hiatus from bookmaking to pursue…

  • Watch Alec Soth and Stacey Baker Show What Enduring Love Looks Like | American Photo

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    Watch Alec Soth and Stacey Baker Show What Enduring Love Looks Like In a recent TED talk, photographer Alec Soth and New York Times Magazine photo editor Stacey Baker tell the story of an assignment they worked on together exploring the topic of how couples meet

  • See How a Celebrated Photographer Plans to Use Snapchat | TIME

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    See How a Celebrated Photographer Plans to Use Snapchat Magnum Photos member Alec Soth will share images that disappear after 10 seconds via Time: http://time.com/3752680/snapchat-alec-soth-photography/ Magnum Photos member Alec Soth will share images that disappear after 10 seconds

  • Alec Soth photographs American community life in his exhibition, Songbook.

    Alec Soth photographs American community life in his exhibition, Songbook.

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    The Two Emotions That Best Describe Life in America: Nostalgia and Anxiety (Photos) In an age of increasing social media–driven isolation, what does community look like in America?  via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/02/06/alec_soth_photographs_american_community_life_in_his_exhibition_songbook.html In an age of increasing social media–driven isolation, what does community look like in America?  That’s the question photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar set out…

  • A New Record of Small Town America | TIME

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    A New Record of Small Town America In his fourth monograph, Songbook, photographer Alec Soth takes a different approach to his work across America via Time: http://time.com/3678370/a-new-record-of-small-town-america/ In his fourth monograph, photographer Alec Soth takes a different approach to his work

  • Lost and found connections in Alec Soth’s American ‘Songbook’ – The Washington Post

    Lost and found connections in Alec Soth’s American ‘Songbook’ – The Washington Post

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    Lost and found connections in Alec Soth’s American ‘Songbook’ A new book depicts Alec Soth’s travels across the country over the course of two years in search of how we stay connected in the age of social media. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/01/08/lost-and-found-connections-in-alec-soths-american-songbook/ For his latest book release “Songbook” (MACK, January 2015), Soth traded the solo…

  • Q & A with Alec Soth

    Q & A with Alec Soth

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    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…

  • A Month of Magnum Photographers on Instagram

    A Month of Magnum Photographers on Instagram

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    A Month of Magnum via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/02/a-month-of-magnum-photographers-on-instagram.html#slide_ss_0=1 We began with Alec Soth, who welcomed the new year from St. Paul, Minnesota. Gueorgui Pinkhassov showed us Moscow, from a candlelit Orthodox Christmas celebration and a look at life across the city. Dominic Nahr documented his trip home, to Hong Kong, to visit his mother,…

  • The Wandering Spirit

    The Wandering Spirit

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    The Wandering Spirit via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/12/the-wandering-spirit.html#slide_ss_0=1 The photographer Alec Soth and the writer Brad Zellar have undertaken a long-term project, born out of simple pleasure, that captures both the humanity and banality of the American continent. Their self-described “North American ramblings” are presented in an irregularly published newspaper titled The LBM Dispatch, which…

  • Old-School Pong

    Old-School Pong

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    Old-School Pong Vintage table-tennis snapshots collected by the photographer Alec Soth. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/22/magazine/pingpong-look.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 The photographer Alec Soth published a book this month consisting of vintage table-tennis photos collected from eBay and elsewhere, accompanied by a conversation between the Ping-Pong-obsessed writers Pico Iyer and Geoff Dyer. Table tennis is “a way to do a physical sport…

  • Alec Soth & Roe Ethridge – Sound and Vision

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    Alec Soth & Roe Ethridge – Sound and Vision – A Photo Editor via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/07/01/alec-soth-roe-ethridge-sound-and-vision/ The long journey that I made at the age of nineteen in search of the Gypsies was my photography school and a school of life. They taught me that there’s always a solution, that we must never…