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Alec Soth

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


"The loneliness of travel is endemic in photography's history for those who leave the studio and travel in search of their subjects. Soth experienced it and recognized it in others. Rather than reject or ignore it, he sought it out, transforming it to empathy. It is all too easy to aim a camera, which can be harsh and unforgiving. When viewing a maquette of Soth's book, National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu recognized Soth's piercing 'eye' and he wrote to Soth that he had woken his subjects just long enough to reveal 'the immemorial, often dreamless, sometimes hopelessly trashy quality of their sleep, then let them sink back into the mud of their impecunious marginality.'"
Anne Wilkes Tucker in Alec Soth: Sleeping By The Mississippi

   

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Alec Soth: A Film by Ralph Goertz

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Alec Soth's artistic process as told by the legendary photographer himself in his Minnesota studio

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Joachim Brohm & Alec Soth: Two Rivers

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited with text by Ralph Goertz. Text by Vince Leo, Wolfgang Ullrich.

Pbk, 9.25 x 8.75 in. / 176 pgs / 74 color / 6 bw. | 10/8/2019 | In stock
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From Here to There: Alec Soth's America

WALKER ART CENTER
Edited by Siri Engberg. Interview by Bartholomew Ryan. Text by Geoff Dyer, Barry Schwabsky, Britt Salvesen, Siri Engberg, August Kleinzahler.

Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color / 40 bw / 48 pg artist insert. | 11/30/2010 | Not available
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Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi

STEIDL PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL
Text by Patricia Hampl, Anne Wilkes Tucker. 2008 Edition. Limited Stock Available.

Clothbound, 11 x 10.75 in. / 120 pgs / 46 color. | 6/1/2008 | Not available
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Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth

MAGNUM PHOTOS
Interviews by Carlo Ducci, Marta Gili, Karl Lagerfeld, Pamela Golbin, Eric Olson, Alec Soth, Franca Sozzani.

Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 212 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 12/15/2007 | Not available
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Alec Soth: Niagara

STEIDL
Essays by Richard Ford and Philip Brookman. Limited Stock Available.

Hardcover, 10 x 13 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color. | 7/1/2006 | Out of print
$350.00


FROM THE BLOG



Alec Soth and Brad Zellar Book Event at the Walker Art Center

Join artist Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar October 25 at the Walker for a discussion in conjunction with their new book, "House of Coates." Originally published as a limited-edition artists’ book, this illustrated novel is now available in a trade format.
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Alec Soth: A Film by Ralph GoertzAlec Soth: A Film by Ralph Goertz

Published by Walther König, Köln.

Leading contemporary American photographer Alec Soth (born 1969) appears before the camera rather than behind it in the latest film from documentary filmmaker Ralph Goertz (director of Hans-Peter Feldmann: Ohne Worte, 2017; Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, 2016; Anthony Cragg: Parts of the World, 2016).

In his large-format portraits of the quotidian pursuits of Middle America, Soth depicts his subjects with a compelling frankness, often capturing them in their own homes or workplaces. In addition to his career in photography, Soth is the founder of Little Brown Mushroom, an imprint created in 2008 with the goal of experimenting with new forms of visual storytelling through publication.

Goertz captures Soth with a similar intimacy at home in his studio in St Paul, Minnesota, where the artist delves into a discussion of his work and creative process.



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Joachim Brohm & Alec Soth: Two RiversJoachim Brohm & Alec Soth: Two Rivers

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited with text by Ralph Goertz. Text by Vince Leo, Wolfgang Ullrich.

This publication brings together the work of German photographer Joachim Brohm (born 1955), credited with being one of the first photographers in Germany to work exclusively in color, and American photographer Alec Soth (born 1969). Joachim Brohm & Alec Soth: Two Rivers focuses on the emblematic series both artists have shot in river regions: Brohm’s Ruhr series (1980–83) and Soth’s Sleeping by the Mississippi (2000–04).

Other work included in this volume, such as Ohio, Dessau Files and Culatra by Brohm, and Songbook and Niagara by Soth, represent fictitious places and allow for a broader view of the oeuvres of the two photographers. Given a special position in the book is Brohm’s portrait series Flash Ohio (1984), published here for the first time, exactly 35 years after its creation. Vince Leo and Wolfgang Ullrich contribute texts.



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From Here to There: Alec Soth's AmericaFrom Here to There: Alec Soth's America

Published by Walker Art Center.
Edited by Siri Engberg. Interview by Bartholomew Ryan. Text by Geoff Dyer, Barry Schwabsky, Britt Salvesen, Siri Engberg, August Kleinzahler.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America is the first exhibition catalogue to feature the full spectrum of the work of Alec Soth, one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography, whose compelling images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes. Featuring more than 100 of the artist's photographs made over the past 15 years, the book includes new critical essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg, curator and art historian Britt Salvesen and critic Barry Schwabsky, which offer context on the artist's working process, the photo-historical tradition behind his practice and reflections on his latest series of works. Novelist Geoff Dyer's "Riverrun"--a meditation on Soth's series Sleeping by the Mississippi--and August Kleinzahler's poem "Sleeping It Off in Rapid City" contribute to the thoughtful exploration of this body of work. Also included in the publication is a 48-page artist's book by Soth titled The Loneliest Man in Missouri, a photographic essay with short, diaristic texts capturing the banality and ennui of middle America's suburban fringes, with their corporate office parks, strip clubs and chain restaurants. This full-color publication includes a complete exhibition history, bibliography and interview with the artist by Bartholomew Ryan.
Alec Soth was born in 1969 and raised in Minnesota, where he continues to live and work. He has received fellowships from the McKnight Foundation (1999, 2004) and Jerome Foundation (2001), was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography and was short-listed for the highly prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published Niagara (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007), Dog Days, Bogotá (2007) and The Last Days of W (2008). He is a member of Magnum Photos.

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Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color / 40 bw / 48 pg artist insert.

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Catalog: FALL 2010 p. 177   

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Alec Soth: Sleeping by the MississippiAlec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi

Published by Steidl Photography International.
Text by Patricia Hampl, Anne Wilkes Tucker. 2008 Edition. Limited Stock Available.

It's hard to believe that the first edition of Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi appeared only in 2004, so swiftly has the book become a classic of our time. Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large format color photographs describe an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, his book elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing and reverie. "In the book's 46 ruthlessly edited pictures," writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex... The coherence of the project places Soth's book exactly within the tradition of Walker Evans' American Photographs and Robert Frank's The Americans." Like Frank's classic book, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi River is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created from a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust. Featuring a new linen-bound cover with a tipped-on image, this is the third print run of a volume which has become one of the most widely collected and highly acclaimed photo books of recent times.

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Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 10   

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Fashion Magazine by Alec SothFashion Magazine by Alec Soth

Published by Magnum Photos.
Interviews by Carlo Ducci, Marta Gili, Karl Lagerfeld, Pamela Golbin, Eric Olson, Alec Soth, Franca Sozzani.

In this beautifully produced third issue of the international art/fashion collectible Fashion Magazine, the acclaimed American photographer Alec Soth plays Editor-in-Chief, Advertising Director and sole photographic contributor--to quietly mesmerizing results. Featuring exquisite printing, unexpected gatefolds, special inks, varnishes and paper changes, this magazine-as-artist's-book-as-sociological-study-as-tongue-in-cheek-(yet-also-very-real)-advertising-vehicle contains some of the most riveting work being produced by a young photographer today. Soth explains: "While Fashion Magazine has a single photographer-author, it's still a magazine, not a book. So it doesn't follow my usual mode of slow, solitary production. It's collaboration. The ideas for the collaboration were formulated very quickly. I was approached by the folks at the Paris office of Magnum to work on this issue late last year. I immediately said yes. I was a huge fan of the previous two editions (by Martin Parr and Bruce Gilden) and was looking for an excuse to play with fashion…. I often say that when I am making a portrait, I'm not 'capturing' the other person. If the photograph documents anything, it is the space between the subject and myself. Something similar is at work with Fashion Magazine. I'm not really comfortable saying I know anything about Paris or its fashion world. And I suspect that most fashionable Parisians know just as little about Minnesota. What is interesting is the space between us. My favorite example of this involves Chanel. In Paris, I photographed Karl Lagerfeld at the Grand Palais. In Minnesota, I photographed a girl with a Chanel shopping bag in front of Sally's Beauty Shop. With this magazine, I'm trying to explore the distance between those two places."
Photographer Alec Soth was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he continues to live and work. He is the recipient of major fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations, and was awarded the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His photographs are represented in major public collections including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Soth's widely acclaimed first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published in 2004, followed by Niagara and Dog Days Bogotá in 2006 and 2007 respectively. Soth is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York and Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis. He is an associate photographer with Magnum Photos.

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Alec Soth: NiagaraAlec Soth: Niagara

Published by Steidl.
Essays by Richard Ford and Philip Brookman. Limited Stock Available.

By way of follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turns his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. And as with his photographs of the Mississippi, these images are less about natural wonder than human desire. "I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers," says Soth, "the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion." The subject may be hot, but the pictures are quiet, the rigorously composed and richly detailed products of a large-format 8x10 camera. Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls, Soth edited the results of his labors down to a tight and surprising album. He depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots, pawnshop wedding rings and love letters from the subjects he photographed. We read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. Oscar Wilde wrote, "The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life." Niagara brings viewers both the passion and the disappointment--a remarkable portrayal of modern love and its aftermath.

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Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 17   

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