I first met Curtis Mann when he arrived with a small backpack at my San Francisco apartment to spend five nights on an inflatable mattress in my living room. He was there to give a lecture on his work at California College of the Arts, where I was a graduate student, and to surf as [...]
Author Archives: Carmen Winant
Alec Soth: The Anti-Fashion Fashion Photographer
October 3, 2011 – 6:11 am
I first encountered Alec Soth’s photographs while wandering through the 2004 Whitney Biennial. The series on display, Sleeping by the Mississippi, stirred something in me that I still can’t quite shake; the images, possessed with a steely – and uniquely American – longing, chronicled several road trips Soth took down south, using only the Mississippi [...]
