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, and an assistant, Dan Christian.
Link: Rockford’s Group Portrait, in Five Days: Alec Soth Shoots for Times Magazine – NYTimes.com
The Mushroom Collector by Jason Fulford When this book arrived, I saw the cover and was afraid to look inside. I flipped through the first few pages and then put it down. I didn’t look at it again …
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/top-10-photobooks-of-2010-by-alec-soth/
“Crosses — Portraits of Clergy Abuse,” a book by Carmine Galasso, who traveled throughout the United States to document the devastated lives of men and women who were betrayed by the very Roman Catholic priests and nuns they had once admired and trusted.
Photographer Alec Soth was denied permission to work in the UK earlier this year. So he handed over the reins of his latest exhibition to a new collaborator: his seven-year-old daughter. By Hannah Booth
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/sep/19/alec-carmen-soth-brighton-biennial
Photographer Alec Soth was denied permission to work in the UK earlier this year. So he handed over the reins of his latest exhibition to a new collaborator: his seven-year-old daughter
Alec Soth tests his fortune among bingo players and lottery hopefuls in Texas.
via Opinionator: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/looking-for-luck-in-south-texas/?ref=opinion
In this installment of the Continental Picture Show series, Alec Soth tests his fortune among bingo players and lottery hopefuls.
It is nice to see someone break all the newspaper multimedia rules. Is it great? I don’t know, but I watched it… Alec Soth rents a metal detector in the California Treasure Hunt
From Sleeping with the Mississippi
“I have big problems with Sleeping By The Mississippi, there’s parts I love, but definitely things I would do differently now. When people point to those things you’d rather do differently, you feel, ‘I wish I could’,
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/05/interview-conversation-with-alec-soth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29
I have this thing, the camera’s on a tripod, it’s like an easel “Ok, I can only take a couple, I gotta makes this great.” Then I tried to get everything in the frame, which, in fact, is not a good strategy for photography. Its pulling stuff out of the frame is usually what you want to do, to simplify it. But I didn’t know that. So that was one of the lessons learned.
In the first installment of “Continental Picture Show,” the photographer Alec Soth explores cycles of sin and redemption in the aftermath of Mardi Gras.
Link: ‘Ash Wednesday, New Orleans’ – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
With the economic crisis and the toll on the housing market we saw and heard hundreds of stories about families facing foreclosure, evicti…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/01/allowing-flowers-by-alec-soth.html
Alec has teamed up with a Minnesota-based non-profit housing developer called CommonBond Communities with the goal of providing 4000 affordable apartments and townhouses to needy residents of the Upper Midwest. Alec photographed some of the residents of the CommonBond homes and produced a beautiful book called Allowing Flowers that is given away as a gift to people who donate significant sums to the effort.
You and Me and the Art of Give and Take by Allen Ruppersberg (Santa Monica Museum of Art) Holy information overload. One of the coolest exhibition catalogues I’ve ever seen. Greater Atlanta by Mark…
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/alec-soth’s-top-10-photobooks-of-2009/
Alec Soth is one of today’s most high-regarded photographers. His talent became widely recognized in 2004 when he was included in the Whitney Museum’s Biennial 2004 (the Biennial strives to showcase the state of art at that moment.) Actually, he wasn’t just in the Biennial, he was a standout: in addition to rave reviews, he was one of three artists highlighted by a Time magazine piece about the Biennial…and even the image-sparse Wall Street Journal showcased one of Alec’s images from the exhibition. (see the Biennial piece above)
Alec Soth shot to notoriety before I dipped my toes in photography appreciation. He also terminated his treasured blog before I could jump aboard. I missed the early boat on Soth’s work and h…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/alec-soth-and-the-art-of-the-interview/
Alec Soth shot to notoriety before I dipped my toes in photography appreciation. He also terminated his treasured blog before I could jump aboard.
I missed the early boat on Soth’s work and have always felt quite maudlin about that. Really there is no need for my malaise; Soth has travailed the papers, the cameras and the blogs as widely as he has the American Interstates. He has left a busy legacy of interviews.
Link: Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia:
This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national identity. The book is curated and published by Chris Boot, a former Magnum director in London.
Alec Soth, Trolling for Strangers to Befriend – NYTimes.com:
ALEC SOTH has created a photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers. On his frequent road trips through America, he’s drawn to loners and dreamers he spots from his car; sometimes he will do several pass-bys before striking up a conversation. Often that will lead to a portrait session with his large-format 8-by-10 view camera.
Alec Soth unveiled The Last Days of W., his first foray into self-publishing, at Paris Photo this fall. A collection of images he’s created over the last eight years, the 48-page artist’s book was printed on newsprint and priced at $17 in what he says was a nod to the current economic crisis. Soth also made a limited edition, which includes a signed placemat made from a photograph he took of the President’s empty chair and desk in the Oval Office.